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Subject: Re: 9 rounds will not always give you the "best" program

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 04:55:11 01/22/03

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On January 21, 2003 at 15:45:56, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>Here you are right but let's not give up so early, I bet that one of the two is
>better in the longer run. And I am sure it is - - - - - wait a minute.... it's -
>- - - Fritz! Chess Tiger is for French people, you know! On holidays I read
>Science et Vie and there in that Journal of France Christophe had the chance to
>make a lot of noise :) for his product, as if it had won anything. I planned to
>write a message about it but then, what for, France is not a leading chess
>nation after all, neither Guadeloupe or Africa. No need to colonialize the whole
>world with Fritz. Enough to know that t's the best. So, like Czub I prefer the
>NO GAME judgment. Fritz is better.
>
>:)
>
>Rolf Tueschen

I agree with Dann, it makes very little sense to pickpoint a winner if they are
too close.

For example, an engine (as a whole product package) is a complicated piece of
software. You have different books, different kinds of learning, the pool of
players keep changing not to mention the hardware.

Imagine for instance one engine that has book learning playing against one that
doesn't, that could offset quite a rating gap.
Or what if the hardware is NUMA or a palmpilot gizmo, surely Fritz would not be
a very good engine there.

-S.



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