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Subject: Re: For beta testers:testing personalities and new movei.

Author: José Carlos

Date: 04:03:49 11/02/04

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On November 02, 2004 at 04:54:08, Uri Blass wrote:

>I am considering to release a new free version of movei.
>
>The latest version has a lot of options to change personality and my guess is
>that it is possible to get at least 50 elo only by changing evaluation and
>search parameters(It is probably possible to get more from movei than from
>programs when changing personalities were already tested more heavily like
>prodeo).
>
>The question is if to release new free version and hope that people will give me
>a personality that does significantly better or to give the version only to few
>beta testers that will need to test different personalities(if there are people
>who are interested).
>
>I am not interested in tournaments that include only one version of movei but
>games at different time control with different personalities from blitz to long
>time control may be productive for me.
>
>My question is how many testers are interested in testing different
>personalities in one of the following cases:
>
>1)If I send it only to beta testers.
>2)If I release it as a free version.
>
>please tell me if you are interested to test it in case 1 and in case 2 and I
>will decide if to release a free version or only give beta version to people who
>ask me based on the replies.
>
>Uri

  Averno has personalities option for some years now. So far, nobody has sent me
a new personality. AFAIK, no one has even tried changing one parameter. So for
last version, I decided to remove most personality options and hardcoded what I
considered best.
  Thus, I suggest you to look for a beta tester.

  José C.



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