Author: David Mitchell
Date: 22:32:23 09/03/05
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On September 03, 2005 at 07:20:21, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 03, 2005 at 06:45:14, David Mitchell wrote: > ><snipped> >>Money isn't the issue, I believe, in Zappa competing or not competing in a >>tournament, right now. Time is. > >Sending Zappa to Leo is only few minutes so certainly time is not the problem >here. But Zappa isn't finished, so any testing would be bogus, and suspect if any changes were made after Leo started testing. That is the time I was referring to - a small amount of time in which AC is still putting the finishing touches on Zappa. > ><snipped> >>I honestly can't imagine having a tester running my program in a large >>tournament, while I am trying to put the finishing touches on the program for >>it's initial commercial release. >> >>That's nothing but trouble. Let's say Zappa scored 50 elo points ahead of >>chessX. Now the commercial Zappa is released and it scores 40 elo points more >>than chessX, or 60 elo points more than chessX. Either way, everyone wonders >>why? What did AC do, "it's not like the beta...". Either way, AC and Zappa lose >>credibility. > >No AC does not lose cradibility from this case because it is clear that there >may be a statistical error in the results. > >Uri You and Leo and several others may understand that, but what if the final released version was different than the pre release version that Leo was testing? People would be suspicious and view the whole pre release testing as highly suspect, if not an outright deception by AC and /or Leo. I'm sure in the course of the WCCC, AC found one or two things he would like to adjust before any release. Only natural. If you don't understand this, I'm sure the crux of the matter is that you have not released a new commercial product, or worked for a company that did same. When you've been through several cycles of this, you understand it much better than you ever would from an outside understanding of the matter. Dave
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