Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 19:34:10 12/28/97
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Don: Can you explain me why is not better -IF is not better-to test a program or its differents versions of it just testing them with a real big set of problems of tactical and positional nature, where best and second best moves has been stablished? I presume that the program or version that solve more and/or in less time, should be the better. Cannot be otherwise. On the contrary, testing each of them againts the others let the chance that a certain version that objetively, in chess standards, is not the best, is at the same precisely the kind that defeats the real best one. You know, as happens between human players, where sometimes there is a black beast even for the best, nobody knows why. I mean, maybe you can thrash precisely the big winner because you faced it with his black beast. OK, I know you alsoo use this mnethod, but I was thinking in all you said in the talk with Theron about this system of doing hundreds of games and I recalled this weird phenomena of "precisely" the black beast. I would be very afraid to lose something real good because of that kiond of suden death method. Fernando, just a customer with a great mouth.
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