Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:15:44 10/31/03
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On October 31, 2003 at 16:34:30, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On October 31, 2003 at 16:20:42, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>Of course there is the moral question. But SSDF was so many times accused of >>not testing the TOP-Engines which are not from Chessbase and were so many times >>accused to test in favor of Chessbase, that I think it is a good decision to >>test the strongest Setting of The King with a decent book. > >If SSDF did not want to play manual games with The King, it was the >responsibility of the company selling The King to help them getting >it tested automatically. > >If they don't want to do this, there should be no reason to thank them >for that by giving The King a totally unfair advantage. Unfair advantage? If you force kasparov to play lines that anand played some years ago then I think that you give advantage to the opponent. The king is using an old book. I do not think that it is unfair advantage but disadvantage relative to the case of using a good book. Even using a good new book is a disadvantage if the book does not fit the style of the program. If an engine can top the ssdf with a book of another engine that it says something very good about the engine. It says that the engine is better than the second engine because it can get better rating inspite of using a book that may not fit its style. > >In case it still hasn't gotten through, a good book and a good learner >represent a significant time and research investment and I'd be damn pleased >if someone could tell me why The King gets it for free while programs like >Rebel, ChessTiger and Ruffian have to make their own. Programs do not have to make their own learner. It is even not correct for programmers. Programmers of chessbase programs did not need to write their own learner and got the learner of chessbase. If engine A with shredder7.04's book is better than Shredder7.04 then it is an important information(note that I do not think that it is the caae). Uri
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