Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:39:06 01/16/06
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On January 16, 2006 at 13:53:39, Keith Hyams wrote:
>
>There may be a tendency for authors to use results against the then market
>leader as a measure of progress, resulting in effectively tuning the engine
>against Shredder.
> I remember Mr Rajlich quoting his results against Shredder when he first asked
>for beta testers.
>
>While it is early days still in the Hiarcs Shredder match, if these results are
>representative, they are not in line with the results that Hiarcs gets against
>other engines.
> Keith
Bah. This is routine. In one of my matches testing some settings of Rybka, it
started the match against Gambit Fruit with a stupendous 6.5 - 0.5! Yet, at the
end of the 40 games, it had scored worse than other settings (less than 60%).
Albert
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