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Subject: Re: Should there be a match involving CMQueen++ and CMQTest?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 18:53:40 07/02/00

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On July 02, 2000 at 21:47:35, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On July 02, 2000 at 18:48:09, Daniel Chancey wrote:
>
>>The settings are unavailable at this time.  CMQTest was my creation as an
>>attempted improvement on CMQueen++.  The settings should be available sometime
>>this month.
>>
>>Castle2000
>
>The proper way to test if your CMTest settings is a better settings or not is to
>privately test it yourself, and once you are at least 60% sure that you have
>inmproved the settings instead of making it weaker, than you set up a match
>between your improved version vs my latest CMQueen++. This was how I assured
>myself that my latest CMQueen++ was better than the previous one. You can not
>claim to have made a faster commercial car than a Ferrari, until you have first
>test driven it a few times. Also do not be ashamed to release your improved
>settings of my CMQueen++, even if it is 99% identical to my previous CMQueen++
>settings. But do not claim that you have an improved CMQueen++ settings if you
>are not willing to post the settings, since this will make people believe that
>you are only hoping instead of talking with enough evidence.
>

PS: You have to be aware that the only reason people are asking you to release
your CMTest settings, is so that they can have a chance to match them themselves
and satisfy their curiousity. This is the only way people can verify that what
you are claiming is true.

>Pichard.



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