Author: Peter Berger
Date: 13:50:50 01/21/01
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On January 21, 2001 at 11:12:38, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 21, 2001 at 10:30:15, Frederic Friedel wrote: > >>Enrique's Cadaqués tournament Round 7 is now up, with lovely accompanying notes >>by IM Hannu Wegner. >> >>http://www.computerschach.de/tourn/cad2001/cad2001.htm > >Gandalf is playing this tournament with a broken learner. There are no double >games, but it keeps playing lines that it doesn't understand well. Soon Steen >Suurballe will release an update that will take care of the problem. I am pretty >convinced that without this bug Gandalf would have scored better, as it did >during the beta period. It's a real pity, among other things because Gandalf's >playing style is truly attractive. > >Enrique I don't understand the relevance of this argument at all. Isn't Tiger playing with a broken learner , too ? If I got it right , the purpose of your tournament is a competition between the best programs around ; I think you chose worthy opponents although I miss a few . But what if one of the authors said : hey , my king safety values are broken ? Isn't this just the same as a "broken" learner ? In fact I don't think you wanted to say that anyway as it seems you simply expressed your hope or expectation that the next version of Gandalf will be even more competitive . But it seems it has become a quite common argument to claim shortcomings on bugs and I don't think it is fair : bugs and shortcomings are just two sides of the same medal IMHO . Tiger 14 , Gandalf 5, Fritz 7 , Century 4 : they will all be here quite soon and probably be much stronger than the current versions ; I don't think the progress made in the meantime should be called a bugfix ;-) pete
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