Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 16:53:45 05/17/03
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On May 17, 2003 at 19:12:54, Uri Blass wrote: >What dependence? Beats me. >If they do bad results they are newer or if they do good results they are newer. > >If they do good results then >1)it is better for the programmer to say that they are not newer because it can >encourage sales of the old version. Not quite, because there is more data available for the spectator to judge independently. For example, one win against Fritz doesn't matter much if the SSDF and other comprehensive comparisons show otherwise. >2)it is better for the programmer to say that they are newer to encourage sales >of the future version. Or at least keep the potential buyers of the competition in doubt about the soundness of the purchase. >Conclusion:it is not clear to me what is better based on the results. Despite the haphazard analysis, your conclusion is correct. The results shouldn't have a lot of marketing value, even though they have been used as such before. Most of the engines are probably new or newish, but so what. Just add X at the end of the engine name. Regards, Mogens
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