Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:41:10 08/25/02
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On August 25, 2002 at 18:16:42, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On August 25, 2002 at 17:44:44, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>Thanks for the info. >>Is it then reasonable to switch Gromit's book in the current SSDF tests from >>fritz7 book to fritz6 book ? > >Not from an objective viewpoint. Each engine should use its own book. But if we >take into account that the current amateurs represented on the SSDF list are and >have been using that book, there's a reason to allow Gromit to use it as well. >Unless it's a better idea to remove all games, where General.ctg have been used >wrongfully and starting over. > >In general SSDF can choose to use any book-engine combination. I mostly wonder >about the engine. Why a privateware engine when there are plenty of freely >available amateur engines to choose from? That doesn't make sense IMHO. That make sense. We have a lot of data about free engines and a lot of tournament of free engines when the ssdf is not involved. It is possible that the ssdf prefer to test private engines and not free engines because they know that free engines are going to be tested by other people. Uri
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