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Subject: Re: Crafty 17.10 not that strong

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 23:35:30 04/25/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 21:59:50, Christophe Theron wrote:


>"Discussed" maybe, but not analyzed. People just express their opinions without
>explaining their reasons.
>
>Even without having the result of thousands of games at hand, it is still
>possible to say "I think blitz games are meaningless because I noticed that prog
>A and prog B reach the same depth in blitz, but prog B goes much deeper than A
>at tournament time controls". Or to say: "Strange, it seems that the winning
>percentage of prog A over prog B in the SSDF list is exactly the same as what I
>get by playing blitz games between the same programs".
>
>Instead, I read "it is obvious that blitz does not allow to measure the strength
>of chess programs" or "this program is better at tournament time controls",
>period.
>
>
>
>    Christophe

As I said, World War one. It's easier to stay in the trenches, rather than poke
your head up and risk something. I've written in this forum that "IMHO" is a lot
easier to write than reasons and that some people get offended when their
waterproof opinions are questioned. I don't think I'l bother you anymore in this
thread, since we almost agree on a few issues and you have better things to do
than to humour me :o).

Best wishes...
Mogens



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