Author: gerold daniels
Date: 21:26:27 10/19/05
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On October 20, 2005 at 00:04:43, Heinz van Kempen wrote: >Hi all :-), > >currently a few CEGT testers are disappointed about what was written here in >some threads. > >Feeling not responsible for statistically absurd fluctuations we really think >that it is better to give rating lists from Thursday evening onwards only for >engine versions, settings, etc. with more than 300 games. It simply leads to >disappointment and frustration, when there is a fantastic start and afterwards a >cruel drop, like it happens so many times over and over again. Maybe better to >inform the authors about progress of a big test via email or in our private >forum. > >Joachim Rang wrote an email to CEGT testers that the chance to improve something >by a setting might be only 1%. I think this is especially the case when few >positions were tested only. Most of the good Blitz results were with additional >king safety to 104, what we did not test. > >Moreover it can´t be that a whole team of experienced testers gets scrutinized, >almost insinuating that there are essential things not done correctly. Of course >with so many games it will not be possible to check the many bugs (every engine >and GUI has) at once and theoretically there might be also a hardware or OS >malfunction. > >We saw of course that all those discussions cast a negative light on our work. >Feeling that we have a great team with enthusiastic testers currently even this >will not demoralize us and we will try to offer valuable information to authors >and interested readers in CCC also in the future. > >I regret that the discussion will surely have been annoying to the readers and >will try to avoid unkind answers of any kind from my side, seeing that there are >great efforts to make this forum friendlier overall. > >Best Regards >Heinz > >http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ Hello Heinz. I think you and the rest of the testers are doing a great job. Enjoy looking at the results each day. Hope you will deside to post as you have been. Most here look forward to your testing. A lot can be learned from the games. Thanks for all your hard work. Good luck, Gerold.
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