Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 07:54:58 12/21/02
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On December 21, 2002 at 10:10:38, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 21, 2002 at 09:58:10, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>This time no murdering intended, assured! >> >>Let me please ask you a couple of very basic questions. Perhaps they are so >>basic that nobody really thought about it before. >> >> >>In a little thread about the question if Fritz 8 is weker than Fritz 7 I read >>certain remarks without further explanation and I was really surprised. >> >>Uri is asking Prof. Irazoqui, if he had already tested so and so in his "secret >>test suite". >> >>What is a secret test suite?? > >This is a tactical test suite but the positions are not known. >The last fact is important because when the positions are known >programmers may be influenced by the positions in implementing tactical >knowledge. > >Enrique found that in most of the cases result in his secret tactical test suite >gave good prediction for the results in the ssdf list. > >I guess that the reason is that in most of the cases rhere are no big difference >in positional strength between programs and the program that is better in >tactics is also the better program. > >> >>Then the addressed answered I'll be glad to "test" your Movei. >> >>What is meant with "I'll test"?? >> >>Further. > >It means that he will give it a lot of positions to solve and use the times of >the solutions to calculate a score for it. > >Uri Tanks, but what is a "score"? I hope that you don't have the feeling as if I wanted to play games here. I swear that I ask questions with a very reasonable and basic importance. I hope you will believe me. And IF the programmers had the possibility to "cheat" when they know the positions, what could a "tester" do in his position? Again, this is NOT making allegations against certain persons, it is all basic for the understanding of such acting and events Rolf Tueschen
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