Author: Marcus Kaestner
Date: 00:30:28 12/10/98
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On December 09, 1998 at 19:13:54, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >I think both of you are attacking, but that is not what I want to say. you´re right, we should stop it! >I do not think the people in this tournament are idiots, and I do not remember >anyone saying you were. > ok >But I do think and I think it is fair commment that you say all the people there >were experts, well an expert is someone who has inside and out knowledge of a >specific subject. And you stated some some people did not get the programs until >a few days before. So they could not fine tune the engines. that I did not say. Karsten said this or bert. > >Well most people who fine tune their chess engines for a specific program take >months to play over games and to change a setting here and there. > you´re right, and some participants did for month. >So your so called experts are experts in what ? Playing chess, and playing chess >on some computer programs. These days it is hard to say someone is a expert in >computers (which I hear so often), but more like they are expert in a specific >field of computers and not the whole field. > >I doubt that your tournament had any experts there, because I believe apart from >the programmer or a person representing the programmer for that engine. then >there are none unless they have spents months or longer testing and finding out >every little detail of that program can be called an expert. > there are some persons, and sometime you find some things about even the programmer is wrong. >You seem to try to prove your point, but then you shoot yourself in the foot by >saying something that proves your comments wrong. > >I mean after years of testing their is still debate about which setting are >stronger for Chessmaster programs. > >You might have had very itelligent people in the tournament but use the word >expert with some degree of respect in regard to using it in the right way, and >not just because someone you consider to be a smart chess player and may know >how to use a computer say they are an expert. > >And the reason why these comments will go on after your tournament is because >everyone else apart from you seem to think that on no matter what hardware you >use in the end the results will be correct > you misunderstood me. I did not say the hardware doesn´t matter. With good hardware you have better chances, but there are other things which are more important in a 7-round tournament as a double speed hardware. For example special book-lines for special opponents. >Well I would like to see Fritz on a pentium 90 win against CM6K on a PII 450 >over say 20 games. No chance. I´m not stupid. Maybe you´ve misunderstood me. >If you think that then your are living in fantasy land, and >no wonder you call the other people there experts, bacause with comments like >that, everyone else in the world would be an expert in comparison to you as >well. I hope all misunderstandings are out of the room now. So long Marcus
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