Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:51:17 01/19/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 21:30:32, Heiko Mikala wrote:
>Hi Vincent!
>
>
>On January 18, 2000 at 17:38:47, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>Please don't play with 6a against chess tiger, or keep track of what 6a
>>scores against tiger and what normal 6 scores against chess tiger.
>
>It seems to me, that Chess Tiger and Fritz 6A will be released at approximately
>the same time (Chess Tiger is said to be released already, but still not
>available;
Tiger is available for deliveries since Jan 13th.
> Fritz 6A is said to be released this week). So I don't see a problem
>here. If any of them used the last months to tune against the other,
Why do you believe so strongly that programmers "tune" their engines against
each other?
I think it would take more time to "tune" against a program than to simply
improve the engine, and anyway it would certainly weaken the program overall.
For your information, I have the Fritz6 CD at home. Frederic Friedel has been
kind enough to send it to me. Unfortunately I have never find the time to try
this program. It is still inside its sealed package, I don't even know what the
GUI looks like.
I'll certainly install it later, as soon as I have some time, because I'm
curious about it, of course. And I'll certainly download the engine update.
I'll also play some manual games against Tiger in order to see if it can help me
to find weaknesses in my own engine, but I'll never use it to play thousands of
automatic games or to "tune" against it. That's not how I work.
> than both
>of them had the same time and the same chances. It even seems, that some of the
>beta testers are the same for Tiger and Fritz 6A? I've seen more than one person
>posting results for both Tiger Beta and Fritz 6A Beta here.
The Rebel-Tiger engine has been frozen at the end of November, and the opening
book is frozen since August.
Forget about this "tuning" stuff, it's not the way we improve our chess
programs.
I don't do that, and I don't think Frans or Amir would do that either. I think
they are experienced and wise enough to avoid this shortsighted way of working.
Christophe
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