Author: Tony Hedlund
Date: 23:44:41 02/11/01
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On February 11, 2001 at 12:31:17, David Wilke wrote: >>You can test Crafty18.xx against programs with known rating like fritz6 so I do >>not see why to prefer only to test Deep Fritz. >> >>Uri > >This is my point. Deep Fritz comes out and doesn't have a rating, so it should >be played against programs with a rating? > >Well I don't see Crafty 18.xx on the list, why wouldn't you test that version as >well. > >This is possibly another commercial vs freeware issue again. Yes you are right. The commercial's come with a new version once a year. But Bob updates Crafty just about every week. If we would play 500 games with every version of Crafty, we wouldn't do anything else. As I said before, next time we test a new version of Crafty it will be on our new hardware. Which will be sometime this year. Tony >I guess only the commercial programs are worthy of having their latest and >greatest version tested. > >It is just a shame to base a rating against programs that are significantly >weaker than the current version. Hell isn't that what is happening here? Give >the commercial product from Chessbase a high rating via the match scores vs >weaker versions of todays programs? I think so. Why not match today's best vs >today's best. Not today's best vs last year's best. > >Do you think I care whether the 2001 Grand Am from Pontiac can crush the crap >out of the 1991 Grand Am? No.. I care how it holds a candle to today's >competition.
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