Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 14:55:19 11/01/00
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>>You can see the "e" version destroyed Fritz 6a, and actually was the strongest >>version over ICS play as well. My question is why wasn't it the commercial >>version? > > >Hi Peter, > Were you a beta tester for Gandalf?. >Something don't seem right, if those scores were correct they >would have also been noted by the Gandalf testers and reported. > >Even the scores e v f at all time controls suggest that e is probably >150 ELO better. Maybe some of the Gandalf testers could address the >question as it seems highly unlikely that e could have been that much >better. > >Sarah. Look at my last line, I am wondering as well why it wasn't the commercial version. I did not finish the beta testing period with Steen and Dan Wulff. We had a sort of falling out. There was a point where two separate GM's on ICC said things to me in personal tells about the play of Gandalf 4.32e after games played, and for reasons I can not understand denied stating them later. Whether they felt I was not going to report their words or not, they later said they never stated what I had wrote to Steen in an email. Such is life, is no the first time something like that has happened. I am sure it has happened to even some of you. Steen chose to believe the GM over one of his own testers, and there was nothing I could do. If I had bad feelings about Steen or Gandalf, I would not post terrific results, instead I would slam his product. This isn't the case here. I am just stating that for some reason, the E version seems to be stronger, but that could be due to a better book. I am only trying to be as honest as possible here. Frank Quinsky started to test Gandalf I believe at the E version, and was the first time he raved about it. In his tournament, Gandalf is doing well, yet in others Fritz is still beating Gandalf. The reason? No idea.. Dan Wulff the book writer for Gandalf won a Quarterly FICS tournament, with the E version, then with the F version, placed 6th in the next Quarterly tournament. I believe that fact was due to his version F's opening book, as he was behind in quite a few games right of the bat. He blamed it on hardware, yet was using the same hardware, and continues to use the same hardware today, as the first tournament he won.
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