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Subject: Re: SSDF Rating List 2006-02-10

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 01:16:28 02/11/06

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On February 11, 2006 at 03:59:05, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 11, 2006 at 02:01:44, Peter Stojanov wrote:
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>>Why they test the engines that have default opening books with a general
>>book,sorry but I don't take their results and rating list seriously.
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>Thee ssdf use default opening book.
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>I do not see a reason not to take results seriously because the testers do not
>use the default opening book.
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>There are people who are interested in results with default opening books and
>there are people who are interested in results of the engines not with the
>books.

true, but if you change the book it is a different player, so the name of the
program should be changed to show this.

I know some people would not agree (who cares), but it is like to force a human
player to play different openings...it is not the same player anymore as results
are concerned.

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>Uri

Sandro



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