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Subject: Re: SSDF Question

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 04:19:21 02/19/02

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On February 19, 2002 at 07:03:16, Chessfun wrote:

>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.
>

I think he meant that he plays with the latest upgrade whatever this is.
To get them to use latest Crafty version Hyatt must follow Chessbase and hide
the minor number in some version-information inside the program and only call it
Crafty18.
Something for Yace when he reach version 1 maybe :)

Odd Gunnar



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