Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 11:11:33 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. bean counter ? i remember this. thow bones in the air. count them. >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. :-)) fast food. mass market. mainstream. monopol. chessbase. wasted time. end of computerchess. the story is very easy.
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