Author: Andreas Schwartmann
Date: 11:05:20 03/07/01
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On March 06, 2001 at 18:37:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Run an event any way you want. That is what this seems to be about. But I >don't see anything wrong with Thorsten's approach of letting people fix bugs >as they are detected. Will it _really_ corrupt the final results? Did >introducing changes after each round of the WMCCC event prevent shredder >from winning? Did shredder get changed? Does it matter? Sure it does: Who really won? Shredder 5? Shredder 5.01? Maybe even Shredder 5.2? The only thing you actually CAN say is SMK has won the tourney with his engine(s). And I guess you can say that it's not that the strongest engine won, but the best-modified-between-rounds-engine did win. Maybe Shredder only won because SMK put in some hours in modifying the engine between rounds in order to make adaptions regarding the next opponents. Maybe Gandalf did not win, because Steen was not present at the tourney and could not make modifications. Maybe Gandalf was Gandalf 4.32h all the time, while Shredder came in many incarnations, each one fine tuned to a particular opponent. So these Shredders won. Does this say anything about Shredder's real strength? Nope. Which Shredder version anyway? Andreas
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