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

Author: Chessfun

Date: 20:25:10 01/19/00

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On January 19, 2000 at 23:06:59, Albert Silver wrote:

>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

I am more interested in the last one;
1h/game and 2h/40moves are totally different things.
Are you saying that you believe a 1h/game on say PIII400,
is the same as a 2h/40move game on a PIII400.?
Thanks.








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