Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 20:18:09 10/15/04
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On October 15, 2004 at 20:51:28, Albert Silver wrote: >On October 15, 2004 at 18:17:46, enrico carrisco wrote: > >>On October 15, 2004 at 10:23:14, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>On October 14, 2004 at 20:40:26, Fernando Villegas wrote: >>> >>>>He does now. >>>>Fdo >>> >>>He has for quite some time. I am fairly sure I recall reading he had Fritz 6 and >>>a couple of other programs he tested against in the past. Now I'm sure there >>>will be others, such as the latest Fritz and especially Shredder. Really amazing >>>how Shredder dominates the comp-comp playing field. >>> >> >> >>Well, like I've always felt -- testing against other programs during development >>is a good way to gauge progress and find weakpoints in your additions, but I >>hope we aren't moving towards "specific tuning" vs. other programs. >> >>That is not an asset to computer chess at all -- it's actually quite disgusting. >> >>-elc. > >Well, if he can 'tune' against Shredder, Fritz, Junior, Hiarcs, AND Pro Deo.... >all I can say is "wow". :-) > > Albert After second review, I wanted to make sure it was understood that I was talking about *ANYONE* who purposely tunes their engine against a competitor, not Christophe himself -- as the original thread subject may suggest. In fact, from past discussions here, I know Christophe feels much of the same way about such maneuvers. -elc.
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