Author: K. Burcham
Date: 08:07:24 05/29/01
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i have posted here several times expressing this same opinion. i have no interest in a result of a world comp-comp tournament, where a program beats another program because someone paid $20,000 to a super GM for a killer book. and then the program breaks all sales records after this world championship win. then I see posted here in all these tournaments that this same program cannot win with the book that was sold to the public. any match or tournament results will continue to be inaccurate until the comp chess world decides to control the books allowed at a match or tournament. also because these operators continue to use outdated hardware for tournament play, i do not assume the tournament results i read are as accurate as they could be. you know what NHRA calls what you are doing. bracket racing. when someone shows up at a drag race with less horsepower than a competitor, they "spot" them one or two car lengths. this is bracket racing. we say this is not "heads up" racing. this type of racing never appealed to me. because it was always clear that one car was faster before they started. not a true engine vs engine match. until the comp chess world decides to control opening books and hardware, i will always wonder how much of these results was due to hardware and opening books. what interest's me is the engine. what your engine looks at. what your engine decides to not look at. this is the true strength of a program---the engine.
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