Author: Mihaly Szalai
Date: 10:26:32 06/04/03
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On June 04, 2003 at 12:54:16, Harald Faber wrote: >On June 04, 2003 at 12:02:16, Mihaly Szalai wrote: > >>From the Chessbase vocabulary: tester = customer > >No. They just define tester different than you and I do. ;-) >Tester nowadays are the guys who produce many many games and results of the >engines with short time controls. Then they count the beans and say: This >version is 14 ELO stronger/weaker than the predecessor. Use it/Throw it. With >this method they absolutely have no chance to find or even see e.g. the time >control bug in Junior 8. >Sad, isn't it? But it is all partly our own fault. Everyone's crying for fast >results after an engine has been released. This is only possible when playing >very short time controls. So you want it, you get it. You want fastfood, no >problem, they produce fastfood. And beta-test fastfood. :-)) Yes, and if you don't like fast food, you can go to a classy restaurant and if you find a fly in your soup there what will happen?
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