Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:41:08 04/26/01
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On April 26, 2001 at 05:52:49, Amit Kagan wrote: >On April 25, 2001 at 20:35:55, stuart taylor wrote: > >>Maybe, DJ isn't as miraculous as it looks from the match with DF, but that >>simply DF might have some serious bugs resulting in its being much weaker than >>DF 6. So in that case it would not be a big surprise that it gets so badly >>beaten by one of the best programs. >>S.Taylor > >Well, I don't think they used a version they compiled 10 minutes before the >event started. I guess they made their internal tests and believed that DF7 is >stronger than DF6. Otherwise, they wouldn't have used it. (At least, that makes >sense to me) > > >Amit It also make sense to me and usually this is the case but it is possible that they thought they have no chance with their DF6(DF6 lost even against Junior6 in the ssdf games) and they decided to gamble inspite of the fact that they did not have time to test it enough. My default assumption is that it is not the case but I may be wrong. It is easy to find out if there are games when the commercial Deep Fritz could play better because all the first 5 games are available with scores and times of both programs. I did not do it. Uri
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