Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:12:38 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? > >Andreas I think that it is the decision of thorsten and I do not see problems with it. I think that you can look at it as a game between the programmers when the target is not to find the best program but to find the winner out of the programmers. Christophe and Stefan(programmers of Tiger and Shredder) have an advantage because they have two programs in the tournament when other programmers have only one program but again I think it is the decision of thorsten and I see no point in complaining when thorsten does not hide the facts. Uri
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