Author: Bernhard Bauer
Date: 03:02:57 08/29/02
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On August 29, 2002 at 04:43:44, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 29, 2002 at 04:01:58, Bernhard Bauer wrote: > >>On August 28, 2002 at 08:05:34, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On August 28, 2002 at 01:33:04, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >>> >>>>On August 27, 2002 at 14:22:04, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >>>> >>>>>Yes, of course, List 4.61 lost vs LG2000v3.7, please also refer to the game >>>>>notation. >>>>>Kurt >>>> >>>>Where is Crafty in this tournament? >>>>Why do you use ponder=off? I can see you have 3 machines. >>>>Have a nice day >>>>Bernhard >>> >>>1)Crafty does not have to play in every tournament. >> >>Of course not but Crafty still belongs to the strongest free available engines. >>So I miss Crafty in this tournament. > >Testing programs takes time and the tester prefered to test new engines and not >crafty. > >The only exception is Junior5 because he wanted to see comparison between the >new engines and the old commercial programs. > >> >>>2)List does not know to ponder so testing with ponder off can give better >>>estimate for the potential of list. >> >>I don't by this. If List can not ponder List may have a problem. Anyway you >>shouldn't cripple the other programs. > >You can decide about different rules in your tournament. > >playing without ponder and with book give better estimate of the ability of the >engine to analyze. > >I agree that it does not give exact estimate because of problems that Jos >mentioned like better time management but I also do not like >test suites to get an estimate for the ability of the engine to analyze because >I do not think that the test suites give the right picture because there are a >lot of positions when we do not know the right move and they are not in test >suites. > >Uri So what does it say, what is the use of this tournament? Bernhard
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