Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 15:07:05 03/07/01
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On March 07, 2001 at 00:24:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 06, 2001 at 22:52:43, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On March 06, 2001 at 22:45:11, Chessfun wrote: >>[snip] >>>This question now though about Enrique's the WMCCC and Thorsten's tournaments >>>ignores your earlier statement which is what I originally responded to about the >>>SSDF. That their results are more representative of the user product plus >>>my previous statement that there never was any proof that anything irregular >>>happened. >> >>About the autoplayer mess: >> >>It has never been demonstrated that there was an ill intent. Probably just a >>simple misunderstanding about efficient use of the protocol. >> >>However, that screwy instruction sequences are sent is easily demonstrated and >>well known. Praticularly onerous is clearing of results for every move. > > >This is the _wrong_ autoplayer controversey. Several years ago, a version >of Fritz (If I recall correctly) was shipped to the general public, and then >a _different_ version with a built-in autoplayer was shipped to the SSDF. No >users had access to this version to see if it behaved mischieviously or not. >Or even if the 'engine' part was identical in both versions or not... >There was a lot of discussion... not much meat however... > >As far as the SSDF goes, does a one year old + version of Crafty really show >how the program plays _today_?? Maybe you can change versions too quickly. >And maybe you can change them way too slowly as well. Particularly in the case >of my program where I don't have or release what I would call a "gold standard" >version, ever... Hi! As you know Crafty dislikes old AMD K6-2 processors, so we wait to the upgrade (in a few months Athlon 1200 or something similar) to play with the latest version. It takes some time to play 500 games..... Bertil
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