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Subject: Re: The results are in ...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:52:00 08/20/00

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On August 20, 2000 at 17:35:15, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On August 20, 2000 at 07:43:38, john watson wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Thanks for all your E-mails.
>>F.A.Q.:
>>- New engines can take part as of round 7.
>>- There is no prize, but I agree with the chessfan who suggested
>>  sending virtual cards.
>>- I and a few R/L friends, that have the same hardware and software.
>>- I don't have a real banner yet for banner exchange, but I'll work on it.
>>- All 5 rounds, that were run before creation of the website, were
>>  added to the website. Round 6 is still in progress so I don't have the
>>  results yet.
>>- All programs use the same time control in all rounds.
>>- Next round: round 6: 40 in 120' (will be added in the coming days)
>>- Deep Junior 6a is by Chessbase from Israel
>
>Why did you selected CM7000 which has bugs and is limited to 1MB of hashtables
>instead of the stronger CM6000 with the strongest CMKing+ settings or SS=10?.

I guess that he wants to teach programmers not to release versions with bugs.
His rules of testing seem to be always to test the latest version and not the
best version.

I also guess that he is not going to use another personality than the default
personality if the programmer does not tell the customers to use it.

Uri



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