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Subject: Re: General Judgement about Positiontests and Testing as such

Author: martin fierz

Date: 07:30:33 06/21/04

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On June 20, 2004 at 02:56:08, Sandro Necchi wrote:

>There is a simple way to verify if the "authors" are correct or not.
>
>They should state clearly how to evaluate all the solutions of the tests
>comparing the hardware to the SSDF one, in order to create the Elo figure.
>
>Then by choosing the next release of 5 commercial programs which will be tested
>by SSDF they have to predict the Elo for ALL 5 chess programs with a + - of 10
>points.
>
>Than and indipendent tester should run the tests.
>
>If they fail, than they loose.
>
>Sandro

+-10 elo, you must be kidding!
the SSDF results themselves have larger error margins than that...

cheers
  martin



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