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Subject: Re: Further testing of CM_Utzinger

Author: John Merlino

Date: 18:19:49 04/30/01

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On April 30, 2001 at 21:16:57, Albert Silver wrote:

>I'd be careful about this. A case in point is this: when testing the two twin
>brother engines Tiger and Tiger Gambit, it was quickly noted that although Tiger
>Gambit's results against other programs were very encouraging (not to mention
>entertaining) as it downed them one after the other, its arch-nemesis was its
>very own tamer twin: Tiger. My suggestion would be to do a similar test against
>two (at least) other top programs of different playing styles to also compare
>the results. They may simply corroborate the results you just presented, but
>they could just as easily shed new light. In any case, I honestly believe this
>would be necessary to get to the truth on the strength of the settings.
>
>                                       Albert
>

You are absolutely correct. But Kurt has already done a great deal of testing
with his personality against many other top programs, and has posted the updated
results many times over the last several weeks. Since he had done no testing
against the default personality, I figured I could at least fill that
(relatively small) gap in the data.

jm



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