Author: Peter Berger
Date: 10:49:50 11/09/00
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On November 09, 2000 at 12:47:42, Christophe Theron wrote: >Then you should value more the SSDF games than the tournament games. > >The author will not be with you in your home and help YOUR copy of the program >to play better. Generally, you know, the author is not provided in the program's >package. > >If you want the best program you can run on YOUR computer, the SSDF tells you >much better than tournament games. > > > > Christophe > I couldn't disagree more ! Who actually buys chessprograms to let them conduct endless series of autoplayed games on multiple computers against each other looking only for the scores ? I agree for them the SSDF results might be of major importance . But I also seriously doubt that there are more than 100 people throughout the world that form this very special market segment . The tournament games obviously can't do that either , OK . But there I can be sure everybody did its best for utmost performance and watch what is the result ( games being more important than results ) . This can give me a vague idea what kind of beast I can expect on my computer when it is released. The number of debatable solutions for technical problems in autoplayed games decided by various people ( like : Junior gets the Fritz book today ; Computer crashed , so computers were swapped between programs near the end of match ( this two examples posted here I remember at once ) shouldn't be underestimated . I have tried a few winboard tournaments myself for example and although nothing very special happened there are _always_ situations that need to be decided like : what to do with the aborted game ? Which engine gets which tablebases ? Which hash settings are used ? It is only logical to assume that mistakes are involved . Most games on SSDF are secret too btw , so how can you get any profit for your decision which is the _best_ program for you ?? What makes up for that to some extent is the huge number of games . Also : is the 40/2h time control really of importance when you try to find out the best program "on YOUR computer" for _your_ needs ?? Again : I don't think so . I think there are very little sources to find out about the best program for you on your computer . First question to answer would be : what do you want to do with it ? IMO . Anwers to that and the resulting following questions would result in better decisions and maybe even better programs but then we meet "Joe User" again :-) pete
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