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Subject: PGN Why is it so difficult to read * About Authenticity

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 03:03:02 01/25/06

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On January 25, 2006 at 03:59:29, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On January 25, 2006 at 03:53:36, allan johnson wrote:
>
>>On January 24, 2006 at 20:01:20, robert flesher wrote:
>>
>>>Here are the first 21 games after I reset the match, enjoy.
>>Robert: I am interested in checking out some of the games and appreciate you
>>posting them. Unfortunately I find the text  difficult and awkward to read.Is it
>>possible to post the games with just the moves?
>>Al
>
>looks as if the PGN has syphilis.
>
>
>EMT here, EMT there.
>what a crap.


Perhaps this can help against your ill-minded prejudice. What you called
syphilis, is in truth the added exact time used for each move in a match, and
with the proper software you can watch the time instantly in a different color -
that is the main reason for this sort of coding. If I were a tester of chess
software, in special if I would test with ChessBase products, and especially if
I were a strict critic of all what came from ChessBaase, I would like to know
with extreme urgence exactly what was played by the examined program and in what
time. The exact time record is also very important if we want to check the
authenticity of test games. The moves alone cant prove it but with the exact
time a later analysis reveils the truth. Of course all this seems to be of no
value for you because you want to insinuate that a couple of tunings from your
side could make any engine better by large margins. But in truth this isnt
"proven" at all. In truth you must have known since long that if you want to
prove the superiority of your tunings, you must care of the comparability of the
different factors. Otherwise even seemingly correct differences have no value at
all. But do you really like to do all that work if you know that the results
have no value out of principal reasons?? I wouldnt think so.



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