Author: Thomas Logan
Date: 15:46:39 10/23/05
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On October 23, 2005 at 15:57:14, Heinz van Kempen wrote: >On October 23, 2005 at 14:36:50, George Speight wrote: > >> >>I would imagine the differences seen in a lot of test results depends on what >>you are looking for. I think CETG does a wonderful job, with great testers. And >>provides accurate results. Its' just that they are looking for different results >>than I am. Starting with pre-defined positions, universal books, etc. will give >>you a good comparison between 2 engines. And that is not my interest. Different >>strokes for different folks, I guess. I am only interested in total program >>comparison. And the only way to arrive at that is to let them use their own >>books, and any and everything else they brought to the table with them. Lock, >>load, play. If one program doesnt have book learning incorporated in it, that is >>something the programmers will have to add or live with the results. I guess at >>times either approach may very well give similar results, and at times not so. >>At any rate, I dont consider either approach wrong- just a matter of preference >>in what you are after. Regards, George PS: I dont doubt that I will get a >>deluge of responses telling me in a nice way how stupid I am. > >Hi George, > >I agree to you, there is nothing right or wrong here. We give different pictures >and all contribute to a variety of investigations, that should satisfy the >authors and interested readers. > >Testers like you or Thomas Logan want to see how the "complete package" performs >and testers like Kurt, Klaus Wlotzka and CEGT want to test the engine strength >without book and bases on typical positions. There is no competition here and >testers should simply stop to tell other testers that they are doing something >wrong. There are simply different and valuable approaches. > I like it and agree Tom
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