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Subject: Re: Pro Deo 1.1 testing by SSDF is wrong !

Author: Pedro Gomes

Date: 11:39:01 06/02/05

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On June 02, 2005 at 05:09:03, Andreas Stabel wrote:


What is very strange is the following:

1) there is no any apologize for those very serious mistakes
2) Tony Hedlund is already back from his vacations

PG


>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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