Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 20:53:37 05/10/00
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On May 10, 2000 at 09:19:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Again, I disagree. A strong chess player can learn a _lot_ about a program >from looking at a complete log of one or two games. Particularly when that >player knew what _he_ was thinking about during the game. Now he has some >insight into how DB 'thinks'. I don't think he would have been able to apply anything he learned from looking at printouts. If a human does something in a certain situation, he'll probably do something similar in a similar situation. Not so with a computer. And I doubt that he'd have been able to learn anything about the program's evaluation function. And regarding extensions, etc., have one of us look at printouts from anyone else's program and we'd learn virtually nothing, although some of us might thing we learn a lot. I think that all he would have gotten from looking at those printouts is a giant-ass headache, and this would have been to IBM's advantage, presumably. bruce
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