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Subject: Re: Tuning and testing chess programs (was:SSDF and Junior6a and Fritz6a)

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 20:06:59 01/19/00

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On January 19, 2000 at 21:00:02, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On January 19, 2000 at 17:25:42, Heiko Mikala wrote:
>
>>
>>Hi Christoph!
>>
>>On January 19, 2000 at 12:51:17, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>
>>Sorry Christoph, it was not my intention to attack or upset you.
>>
>>I only wrote this, because Vincent's post implied, that Fritz 6a is a version of
>>Fritz specifically tuned to perform better against Tiger.
>
>
>I'm not upset, but I'm fighting against some legends since a long time. "Tuning"
>is one of them.
>
>I think I'd better stop fighting against the windmills and let people believe in
>things like:
>
>* "tuning"
>* fast searcher => bad in positional play
>* slow searcher => a lot of knowledge
>* a 10 game match is significant
>* 1h/game and 2h/40moves are totally different things

I presume by the last two, you are referring to comp-comp games.

                                        Albert Silver


>    Christophe



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