Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:22:45 03/05/01
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On March 05, 2001 at 16:08:48, Andreas Schwartmann wrote: >On March 04, 2001 at 11:51:18, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On March 04, 2001 at 10:36:15, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >> >>>Die B.27 ist okay, unterscheidet sich kaum von der Paderborn-Version. >>>Gruss, Uli >> >> >>brilliant. i ask because i don't want that anybody feels disadvantaged. >>if anybody thinks he has a better version he is allowed to upgrade >>between the rounds. > > >And that's completely rubbish. If you update engines between rounds, what use is >the outcome of such a tournament? There is no consistency in this tourney! An >updated engine is a DIFFERENT engine, so you might as well not call it a tourney >but a set of engine matches. Hell, you might even start such a "tourney" with >Fritz 1 and end up with Fritz 7 ... and what would this say about Fritz's >playing strength? He started weak but ended up the winner nontheless? Har har. >In my opinon, the engine version that started the tournament should be the very >engine that ends it. No changing of horses in midstream or else the results get >worthless! > >Imagine Linares ... Kasparov gets bored in midtourney and gets exchanges by >Kramnik ... Shirov does not play to good, so he sends in his brother (does he >have one?) ... but that would not be a tourney anymore. Just like your Odyssee >with updated engines is no tourney in my opinion. > >Just my $0.02. > >Any comments? Scientifically, you are right, and I run my tournaments that way. If they are intended purely for entertainment, then who cares? ;-) You can always argue it both ways. Consider the crippled ChessMaster version that does not use its allotted time to think. On the one hand: The outcome of that program will not be nearly so strong as it ought. On the other hand: Many people will have only the CD with the version which does not think long enough. On the other, other hand: If you change in mid-stream, it won't be as strong as the patched version nor as weak as the pre-patched version. On the other, other, other hand... etc.
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