Author: Albert Silver
Date: 10:52:12 02/22/06
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On February 22, 2006 at 13:43:25, David Dahlem wrote:
>On February 22, 2006 at 13:35:58, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Rolf has written a post where makes some judgements about Rybka. Some of them
>>could be considered wrong, some other can be considered worth of a thought -as
>>the one that consider a different thing to test a program in auto mode or with
>>an operator- and some others very debatable.
>>What I consider that in any case is of bad taste and unncesary no matter how you
>>see at it is the oportunity some guys has taken to attack Rolf viciously because
>>they does not like what he said about Rybka.
>>Ok, you does not agree. Yu does even think Rolf went amok.
>>So what?
>>Is that a reason for spilling blood?
>>This is an habitude that unfortunately has made big inroads here.
>>I like Rybka too, but I do not forget is just a chess program. Not motive
>>enough, in my opinion, to go further than just a calm "I do not agree".
>>Once and again, though, a tiny thing is enough here to begin a war.
>>
>>Fernando
>
>In my opinion, Rolf's motivation with that post WAS to start a war. :-)
>
>Regards
>Dave
I tend to agree. I posted several test matches comparing different parameters in
the past, playing at least 120 games for each parameter, and he criticized them
saying that 120 games meant nothing statistically. Now he makes this big post on
the end of Rybka based on 4 games??
Albert
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