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Subject: Re: Is the SSDF taking a break from testing?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 16:01:01 07/15/05

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On July 15, 2005 at 17:30:08, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On July 15, 2005 at 14:58:32, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>No.  You forget about pondering.  CEGT games are played on one computer,
>>without pondering.  This means that the actual difference is bigger than 2:1.
>
>What is quality but our subjective, often feeble minded, opinions.
>
>Two hour something games is "quality" but one hour is "garbage"??
>Come on that is not rational thinking.

It is not, but I never made such a claim.  I didn't use the word "garbage"
or any similar word anywhere.  I think both lists are based on data of
very high quality.

>The rating lists are different indeed and it is good to have them both, but I
>tend to look at CEGT more than SSDF now.

So do I, mostly because my main interest is in amateur engines, which
are very rarely tested by the SSDF.  Like you, I don't really care how
big the rating difference between Fritz 7 and Fritz 8 is (I am much
more interested in learning about recent improvements in Frenzee,
but unfortunately not even the CEGT list has anything to tell me about
that).

Some (perhaps even most) people around here don't care at all about
the strength of your engine or mine, but are very intrested in the
relative strengths of all the Fritzes.  To those people, most of the
effort spent by the CEGT team will look like a waste of time.

I don't really think we disagree at all.

Tord



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