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Subject: Re: Super Tournament - 2nd cycle completed (30 rounds of 60)

Author: Jason Kent

Date: 18:44:44 02/25/04

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>>Aha.  I see you are using the fritz powerbook with max variety...
>>
>>That begs the question of what your "tournament" is supposed to show, since a
>>wide book introduces _lots_ of luck into the outcome, and won't be reproducible
>>by anyone else since nobody uses one common book for multiple engines...
>
>What do you mean "nobody"? Everybody does do it all the time! And a wide book is
>even better, it shows what your search-object (engine) is capable of in a wide
>variety of positions, in stead of playing over and over and over the same few
>"proven" openings. If Crafty is mated in 12 moves in an irregular opening,
>wouldnt' that be interesting to know? Think about it.

The only problem is that sometimes one engine comes out of the opening with
+2.00 evaluation.  It makes it nearly impossible for the worse of engine to win.



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