Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:40:24 11/02/03
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On November 02, 2003 at 14:34:13, margolies,marc wrote:
>i have two points to make.
>1) g-c p. is correct because a fair tournament is not held on one machine
>anyway. this is because of resource allocation issues. and while we can produce
>verifiable rsults in engine-engine matches on a single machine those results are
>not reflective of the same engine alone on the machine playing-- that is what
>most users want to find out.
>2) if chessmaster's engine suffers without its own book under the cb interface
>for a single machine match, then I say "so what?" chessmaster gui is rigged
>intentionally to use another engines resources during a same machine match and
>no honest td would allow it to function as such in a engine-engine single
>machine match. Therefore any handicap the engine suffers is a result of the
>designer's cheating, not the tournament director's.
>as a corollary, do we know much about the tuning involved in chessmaster's book,
>if there is any?
The problem we are talking about does not involve testing on a single computer.
In the SSDF matches, each program is running on its own computer.
So I don't really understand what you mean.
Christophe
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