Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 11:03:57 02/14/99
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dear Mr karlsson: Sorry for my ignorance and thanks for the info. BTW you are guys are doing a fantastic job in spite of all our criticisms. please keep it. rajen Gupta upOn February 14, 1999 at 09:14:17, Thoralf Karlsson wrote: >On February 14, 1999 at 04:16:19, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>I wonder whether the SSDF testers will sustain the stamina needed to conduct a >>long series of manual games between cm 6000 and other programmes both on a P 90 >>and on a P 200 MMX in order to get a proper statistical rating? Probably not.(at >>least I don'thave the energy to do such a thing)I am quite certain that after a >>few matches it will fizzle out and once again we will not know the true strength >>of CM 6000. > >At least we will reach 100 games, perhaps 150, but certainly not 400-500 games. >At the moment we have 42 tournament games which I know about. > > In this case I feel that it would be more worthwhile for the SSDF >>testers to play CM 6000 initially only against P 200 opponents merely because it >>would be much more fun to watch the out come with each game.If after the P 200 >>matches are over and someone still has the enthusiaism then they could probably >>go on to play the P 90 opponents in order to round out the statistics. > >Your comments show that you don't know how the testwork is done. > >We don't have a club house or a room somewhere filled with all our PCs, programs >and chess computers, where we meet and play games. All games are played in the >homes of the individual testers. In most cases the games are played on the PCs >which the testers happens to own. > >At the moment there are 10 persons who possibly could play manual games with >CM6000 on P200 MMX. Five of them haven't played any games yet, and I doubt that >all of them eventually will play any games. > >Five testers have so far contributed with between 2 and 14 games each. One >tester always plays against SPARC, because he has nothing else to play against. >Another tester uses a 486/66 MHz as the opponent. Tony Hedlund, who so far has >played the most games, has one P200 MMX and one P90. So of course he uses these >machines for his testing. > >Hans Christian Lykke can play against P200 MMX or P90 and the same goes for >myself. Which opponent Hans Christian uses depends on which of the PCs he at the >moment needs for other things. That's why he switches between meetings against >P200 MMX and P90. > >So we don't have a real choice between games against P200 MMX or P90. We produce >the games which someone has the will and possibility to play. But of course, if >someone donated us a lot of money, we could buy new stronger PCs to play >against! > > > But it >>would be a shame if CM 6000 didn't get the opportunity to slug it out against >>F5/,J5, R9/10, H6, Nimzo 98, MXCP on top hardware because of time constraints. > >To get 100-150 games against somewhat weaker opposition is much better than no >games at all. > >Best regards > >Thoralf Karlsson > > > > > >> >>Rajen gupta
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