Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 08:58:04 07/01/99
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On July 01, 1999 at 09:06:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On July 01, 1999 at 04:46:04, blass uri wrote:
>
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>>On July 01, 1999 at 04:31:13, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
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>><snipped>
>>>>"most" of us don't make last-minute changes... except for opening book
>>>>stuff. Which means that the version from 6 weeks prior to Paderborn is probably
>>>>_very_ close to the version played at Paderborn, usually...
>>>
>>>Right now there is only one Shredder acount on ICC which is run by myself
>>>("Shredder") and where you can play versions other than the commercial ones.
>>>
>>>Stefan
>>
>>Rober hyatt:
>>>>"most" of us don't make last-minute changes... except for opening book
>>
>>Do the words "most" of us include you?
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>For the two WMCCC events, absolutely. I generally 'freeze' things 90 days
>before such an event. Allow minor tuning (eval changes) up to about 30 days
>before the event, then 'live' with that thru the end of the tournament. In the
>days of Cray Blitz I couldn't do that because we didn't get access to the cray
>often enough and we often were 'tuning' right up to the tournament, which hurt
>us often. More games are lost by last minute changes than all other cauases
>lumped together. We used to joke at the ACM events that you could tell the
>'beginners' because they were always logged on between rounds making serious
>changes to their programs...
Wasn't Crafty's sub-par result at Paris '97 the result of some last minute
tweaks to the eval? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you said that the Paris
version even lost a long match to GnuChess. Hard to believe that a well-tested
version of Crafty would ever do that...
--Peter
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