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Subject: Re: SSDF Question

Author: Chessfun

Date: 04:03:16 02/19/02

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On February 19, 2002 at 06:48:34, Tony Hedlund wrote:

>On February 19, 2002 at 03:59:56, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>What do the SSDF testers do if an engine and/or program upgrade becomes
>>available after the testing with this program has already started?
>>
>>(1) ignore the upgrade
>>(2) restart the tests with the new version
>>(3) continue the tests with the new version
>>
>>Does it make any difference whether the program's author gives the new engine a
>>new name? For instance, Rob Hyatt always gives a new version number to his new
>>versions of Crafty, whereas Chessbase calls all their Fritz upgrades "Fritz7".
>
>It depends, but we doesn't ignore the upgrade. With Fritz 7 we doesn't test
>"7.0.0.2" and "7.0.0.6", we test Fritz 7 with the latest upgrade. We had played
>a few games with the first version.


Fritz 7  7,0,0,6 is the latest upgrade?

Sarah.




>With Crafty we test a version number and
>then wait a year or so, before we test a new version. We have tested Gandalf 5
>but Steen found some bugs in it so we will start to test Gandalf 5.1.
>
>Tony



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