Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:01:36 09/21/00
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On September 21, 2000 at 10:51:22, Severi Salminen wrote: >>There was no time to test Crafty17.13 at hundreds of tournament time control >>games. >>Crafty17.13 is also not a fritz engine that you can download at chessbase site >>and the latest Crafty at this site is Crafty17.11. >> >> >>If the tester tests Crafty17.13 against Fritz in hundreds of long games then >>there will be Crafty 17.20 at the time when there are results. >>Fritz6a is not the latest Fritz so if you ask why not Crafty17.13 you can ask by >>the same idea why not Fritz7(beta) or at least Fritz(london) > >Well, _of course_ I ment the latest Crafty available. I didn't know 17.13 hasn't >been ported to CB engine yet. Crafty 17.13 or 17.11 is available, Fritz 7 or >London version is not - so, we have a big difference, don't we? > >There are two points why I asked: I wanted to indirectly ask if and why this >person thinks Crafty 17.05 is stronger than 17.13. There are many people saying >Crafty 16.19 is the best and so on. I wanted to know if it was the reason here, >maybe not. > >The second point is that in my opinion there is no reason to test with a buggy >version. In Fritz you don't have much choice as new versions or patches come >very seldom. But in Crafty you can check what is new in newer version: bugfixes, >new features, alterations to engine. And make a decision whether to continue the >match or stop it because of bugs. There are a lot of differences between 17.05 >and 17.13. > >Severi I do not see how to avoid testing old versions when you play hundreds of tournament time control games. Uri
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