Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:58:02 10/15/04
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On October 15, 2004 at 11:21:05, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>All depend of what we call "the past". In the real past, say, two or more years
>ago, he did not use testing procedures against other programs. He said so many
>times.
Actually, it was in the past that I meant. At about the time he was still
developing CT13 or CT14, but perhaps I misunderstood and only presumed he tested
against Fritz 6, as opposed to merely owning a copy.
>Then, one of the last times he posted here and expressed his ruminations,
>he said or insinuated he was going to make use of the probed method of testing
>as anybody else. Clearly he felt he was reaching a ceiling in chess programing
>with his current system. So I would say as a safe bet that he is:
>a) rewriting from scratch a lot of things
>b) making use intensively of top programs to test his own
>c) he will give us a monster.
I have no doubt he is capable of it and can hardly wait! :-)
Albert
>
>Cheers
>Fernando
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