Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:05:18 03/05/04
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On March 05, 2004 at 07:40:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On March 05, 2004 at 04:41:22, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: > >The most important 3 issues are: > a) you need to pay them to get garantuees *when* a new program gets on the >list > b) not all games get published. in fact CURRENTLY, so in 2004, only 1 tester i >can find who publishes all games he plays. > >What does that say about the other testers? > >That means that they produce a rating which you cannot verify to be true. > > c) All the engines competing in SSDF use interfaces and engine tricks that are >just too dirty to be true. As far as I know yace is not using the fritz interface. For example when loading UCI engines playing fritz8, >then it will after the first game only get 1MB hashtable for games 2 till the >end of the match. I read about the 1 mbyte problem but I am not sure if your descreption is correct. I remember from gcp posts that there are no rules to define when the problem of 1 mbyte happens so it does not happen always from game 2 but I did not check it so I cannot say something that I sure about. > >Such tricks are too dirty simply. To avoid all these tricks you are working for >years. So you are not busy with computerchess then. really? I do not think a single programmer work for years to avoid these tricks. It is easy to avoid the 1 mbytes problem by reading the hash size from an ini file. > >SSDF should not allow such tricks, which is of course hard when you get paid for >that... > >Right now we cannot verify what happens in the games. Only 1 tester is >transparant. It is not important. There are enough tournaments when all the games are avalaible(see WBEC) I wonder when are you going to play in one tournament when all the participants get equal hardware. If you do not like winboard then there are enough testers that you can trust who do not test only winboard programs. Uri
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