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Subject: Re: One hope for Chess Tiger 16 / Tiger 2004

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 01:54:30 10/16/04

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On October 15, 2004 at 23:23:04, enrico carrisco wrote:

>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
>
>Yes, of course "wow" -- because that is adding strength/knowledge in a general
>"overall" sense (the honest way.)
>
>Now if all the above engines were tuned against and the tuned program had a
>parameters menu that asked which engine it was playing -- we're back to the
>disgusting territory. :)

Which program has that feature?

Sandro
>
>-elc.



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