Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:10:26 11/29/99
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On November 28, 1999 at 10:42:29, pete wrote:
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>>Then that begs the question: how is he 'testing'? He isn't playing in any
>>public human events on any significant number of games. If you don't enter a
>>lot of human tournaments, and you don't play against computers, then what do
>>you test against? Certainly _not_ against yourself... That won't fly...
>>
>>However, in my case, I really don't give a swat... I have more than enough to
>>work on.. :)
>>
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>Christophe Theron has posted more than once that he tests his program against
>human players of his country letting Tiger play on very slow hardware to improve
>it and that he doesn't own any modern chessprogram at all and only sometimes
>tests autoplay against fritz2 and genius5 to see if the autoplayer code still
>works .
Guadeloupe isn't exactly a hotbed for strong chess players. I'm not sure how
much he can learn from such games.
Albert Silver
>
>If you are aware of this you are in fact saying he didn't tell the truth but
>tests secretely against the top engines to find glitches in them ; this is no
>nice style if you have no proof.
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