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Subject: Re: Testing between old vs. new

Author: Chessfun

Date: 17:09:54 06/05/01

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On June 05, 2001 at 20:07:05, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 05, 2001 at 18:58:44, Divy wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know of testing done between CM8000 and CM6000?  It was brought to
>>my attention that some people still prefer the older CM6000 engine in terms of
>>playing strength.
>
>In testing two engines of nearly equal strength, so many games are required to
>get an accurate result that you will basically never find out.
>
>The CM 6000 engine was tested on slower hardware.  It had to be hand-operated
>and was a horrible pain to test.  The CM 8000 engine can be autoplayed (IIRC).

I also wonder about the SSDF testing of CM6K whether the programs it played were
able to use book learning as the games had to be restarted manually.

Sarah.




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