Author: Darrel Briley
Date: 19:31:20 06/02/05
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On June 02, 2005 at 14:39:01, Pedro Gomes wrote: >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 > http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?429373 This looks like an apology and an acceptance to me... Text from thread follows: >Hi Tony, > >I already suspected something like that. First of all the personality is >missing, it means you are playing with an engine of 3 years ago. Secondly the >hash table size used is only 4 Mb, this would explain the low ply depths. My mistake. I played with the winboard version using Arena GUI, I thought it could handle the settings. But I should of course have checked the param-file, sloppy of me. Consider this, Pro Deo did rather well against Chess Tiger, Deep Sjeng, Gandalf and Ruffian. >Please reread the instruction email I have send you at the time, everything is >in there. Yes it is. But I wanted so bad use Arena, and you didn't know anything about that. Bad call by me. I will go on a vacation tomorrow morning, but I will restart the testing when I'm back. >Good luck and keep up the good work. > >Ed Not a very good work this time, I'm afraid. Sorry for this, Ed. Best Tony All okay Tony, wish you a good vacation. Ed > >>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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