Author: Andreas Stabel
Date: 02:09:03 06/02/05
Hi, I started to react when Pro Deo lost all its games at the end of the testing against two programs. I don't remember the programs, but it was those before the current testing against Shredder and Junior. If I remember correctly Pro Deo was leading both matches and then suddenly lost all 3-5 games at then end of both matches. I thought at the moment that it was peculiar, but statistically possible. I continued watching Pro Deo and saw that it won a game in the next match and didn't think more of it before now. It is now clear that the test against Junior is wrong (see posts by Ed Shröder and others). The match against Shredder also seems to give too bad results. All this started to happen at a definite moment in the previous matches. I don't know if they always run Pro Deo on the same machine - if so something must have happened to it. If it is run on several machines I must admit a can see no explanation except perhaps a systematic change in the settings that has turned out to be bad. I would call for the testing to be halted until this problem can be solved and then for all Pro Deo matches to be run again. I don't think Ed Shöder and his very nice program deserves this. Still - I would like to thank Tony Hedlund and the other testers in SSDF for the nice work and incredible amount of time they put into this. Best regards Andreas Stabel
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