Author: José Carlos
Date: 07:23:22 05/29/01
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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. > >This is to test the _engine_ not a combination of engine and book. > >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. > >It _is_ important to know the strength of an engine even before you add >books, databases etc. > >Then you can optimize the whole programm, utilizing books and so on. > >I concur with Alan Tomalty's concept completely, if you want to know engine >strength alone. > >Terry Can you define "engine"? Can you state clearly what parts of a program belong to the "engine" and why, and what parts are not the "engine" and what are they then? I'm so curious... José C. PS.: My own definition of engine include everything but the GUI.
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