Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:29:52 05/28/01
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On May 28, 2001 at 21:42:57, Terry McCracken wrote: >On May 28, 2001 at 19:42:37, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Play 'em that way if you want to. >> >>Silly to remove 80% of a program's strength. >> >>But that's just my opinion. > > >First Dan you don't decrease the engine strength one iota, you know that. No but it does have an incredible impact on PROGRAM strength. >This is to test the _engine_ not a combination of engine and book. Then be my guest. >Now I'll have to do some digging to find Alan Tomalty's article back in 1987 >or 88, of "Komputer Korner" fame, but he, a tester for many years recommended >to turn off _book_ and pondering to test 'engine' strength in tournaments. What about endgame tablebase files? What about internal data files? DarkThought has all tablebase files in ram, for example. >It _is_ important to know the strength of an engine even before you add >books, databases etc. Not to me. Maybe to others. I just want to know how well it plays chess. >Then you can optimize the whole programm, utilizing books and so on. You can optimize the program any way that you want to. >I concur with Alan Tomalty's concept completely, if you want to know engine >strength alone. Then test that way. Makes no difference to me how others do it. I think it foolish for them to try an impose their will on me, however.
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