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Subject: Re: SSDF Question

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:40:49 02/22/02

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On February 22, 2002 at 07:18:10, Mike Hood wrote:

>On February 19, 2002 at 07:57:03, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On February 19, 2002 at 07:19:21, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>
>>Clearly you're right.
>>
>>
>>>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 :)
>>
>>
>>I dunno there is a lot of number between 0.99.60 and 1.00
>>
>After 0.99.99 he can always release 0.99.99.01, I suppose :)

or maybe the next versions are going to be
0.99.999 0.99.9999 0.99.99999...)

Uri



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