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Subject: Re: Ruffian 1.0.1 very strong in blitz games v. Chess Tiger 14

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 02:24:33 01/10/03

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On January 10, 2003 at 05:00:39, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On January 09, 2003 at 19:05:34, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>
>>By the same argument, you could say that anyone should avoid testing engines in
>>environments where they are likely to suck. If an engine is poor at blitz, it
>>shouldn't be tested at blitz timecontrols. Likewise with any other imaginable
>>parameter. Otherwise the tester obviously suck.
>>
>>If there's a bug, it should be fixed. If the bug causes inferior performance.
>>Too bad.
>>
>
>Exactly.
>
>EOD. I don't want to go to the strange and unknown place that is the weird
>logics of Thorsten.
>
>/David

if there is a bug, one should fix it - of course.
but if there is a bug, and you test the engine although the bug influences
the outcome, your test-match data is not serious.

when christophe says there is a bug in the fischer time control,
and people publish fischer time "results", the data is senseless.




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