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Subject: Re: We are the testers, my friend...

Author: Gregory Owett

Date: 11:56:00 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. :-))

In certain country, I know, this kind of "beta-tester" is colled "pigeon" too !
G.O.



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