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Subject: Re: Regarding the Kramnik match: is CCC so deeply asleep??? :) :)

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 10:27:37 04/19/01

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On April 19, 2001 at 11:54:21, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On April 19, 2001 at 11:48:08, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>So let's find a SOLUTION!
>>
>>I won't go into Deep Details here, but let me tell you that I can easily write a
>>program that nobody could ever prepare against, especially given the (known)
>>conditions of the match.
>>
>>You do not have to be a chess programmer to know how to do that.
>
>My suggestion would be to put an if on top of your eval function and let
>it return random numbers before the day of the match.
>
>Of course, they lawyers will sue you till poverty if they find out.

Somewhat more subtle would be to put the weights for the components of your eval
into an external file, and give them a version with this file filled with random
numbers (or numbers significantly, but not grossly, different from the real
ones).



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