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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