Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 13:58:39 07/17/05
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On July 17, 2005 at 11:17:24, Heinz van Kempen wrote: >Hi all :-), > >I just read all the threads below concerning SSDF. First of all I have to say >that I am a big fan of this list for many years already. > >CEGT however was never designed to compete in any way with such a traditional >list with tournament time control and ponder on. It is just a hopefully useful >link between the many Blitz tournaments and those with tournament time control. >It should preferably help authors of stronger amateur engines to have a quicker >guess if they improved with their engine. > >CEGT came out of AEGT (including predominantly the same testers). This was >founded when I asked in the old Winboard Forum if there are people willing to >combine their efforts to give better statistical data with a time control that >would still allow many hundreds of games for a lot of engines. In AEGT only >amateur engines are tested. Today I think that strong engines like Fruit 2.1, >ProDeo 1.1, Spike 0.9a, etc. can be tested better when including games against >commercials and all our results show that 500 games are not sufficient to >determine the strength of an engine and so we play usually 1000 or even more >than 2000 for the best. > >A lot of things might still be improved in the future, but playing with even >more time and having the same amount of games is only possible with more testers >and it is not easy to find people who are testing with a lot of endurance. > >Besides all statistics CEGT will also give new kinds of tournaments in the >future, as we are intending to have fun with testing. A first example is the >City Grand Prix. Others are already planned. More about this in Winboard Forum >soon. > >Anyway thanks to all who support our tournaments and understand that we can´t >offer more and better time controls under the given conditions with only ten >machines currently. But maybe some things will improve as soon as the dual cores >are available at a decent price. > >http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/downloads.htm > >http://uk.geocities.com/bloodhound66@btinternet.com/index.htm > >http://www.cegt.info/ (german) > >Best Regards >Heinz The important thing is that you're having fun doing it. Andrew
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