Author: Hans Christian Lykke
Date: 02:47:44 01/16/01
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On January 16, 2001 at 05:12:12, Ed Schröder wrote: >On January 16, 2001 at 01:57:59, Hans Christian Lykke wrote: > >>On January 16, 2001 at 00:32:42, Harald Faber wrote: >> >>>You can say whatever you want, but this result (and the other auto232 Rebel >>>Century results) is absolutely nonsense and out of value. >> >> >>You can say whatever you want, but this result (and the other auto232 Rebel >>>Century results) is absolutely necessery and of great value to make the SSDF-list! > >No great value at all. It will only hurt the creditability of your list. > >In previous years I already informed SSDF that running Rebel using the >autoplayer makes no sense because the autoplayer software hurts the real >playing strength of the program and I adviced the SSDF to test Century 1 >manually. > >As a result Century 1 was not included on the SSDF list. I understand the >pain of playing manual games and I respected your decision. > >With Century 3 the question came again. I told SSDF the same story, pointed >the the manual that explains about the loss in playing strength and left >the choice up to SSDF. > >It would have been best to follow the same procedure as last year with >Century 1, that is, test Century 3 manually or don't play the thing at all. > >As long as you don't take a producer information serious you can't count >on peoples sympathy. > >If you had taken the time and study Century 3 manual performance versus >its autoplayer performance it is not so difficult to figure that Century 3 >rating and place on your list highly doubtful. > >Just do your list a favor and take the trouble to play 100 manual games >and you will be surprised. > >Ed I think that nearly every programmer/company has an excuse/explanation that their program does not reach the results they think the program should have. Some examples: Fritz 6 does not like the K6-2 450 Hiarcs 7.32 has a bug with longer timecontrols Gandalf 4.32 had a bad book-learning and are better with faster computers! Century 3 plays bad due to the auto-player! etc. Venlig hilsen Hans Chr. Lykke (SSDF)
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