Author: Imran Hendley
Date: 17:53:37 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 17:54:07, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On January 23, 2000 at 16:14:20, Bertil Eklund wrote: > >> >>Hi! >> >>As earlier mentioned Tiger lost 12 times in the same line as black, because of a >>narrow opening-book. No games was exactly the same but it was to late to do >>anything, Tiger was lost in a few moves after this line. > >1. you let the new versions play against older versions of the same >program , or let the same program play on fast machines against >slower machines. thats nonsense. > >2. you don't delete the doubles ! here you even count 12x the same opening !!! > >3. you only let the new programs play against new other software >(or - as stupid, see point 1). But you never test against a big >variety of programs on same fast hardware. > >therefore your results are ot serious. > >die schwedische eloliste ist nicht mehr das was sie einmal war. >the autoplayers have not only brought us advantages. it seems >they had very negative effects on you. > >:-)) 2 & 3 can be debated, but I don't think number 1 is a mistake by the SSDF. If a human loses two identical games, the second one isn't "deleted" so I think the ability of a program to learn from its mistakes should and does effect its rating.
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