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Subject: Re: To win the wc of computerchess means nothing.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:01:28 03/21/02

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On March 21, 2002 at 17:52:36, Thomas Lagershausen wrote:

>DJ7 is worldchampion of computerchess.

According to what measure?

Shredder tops the SSDF.
Shredder won the IMCCC.

>Todays game  against Gulko shows that this
>means nothing. When the program had to play against a human player completly
>other things are important to play a highrated game.Junior is the weakest
>program in the competion against Gulko.Gulko had played real antichess today

Which was the first time he tried it (IMO) and so it is unfair to measure Junior
by today's performance.  I expect that future games will also show this style.

but
>DeepJunior7 canĀ“t improve the own position.The opposite was the case.It weakens
>the own kingside with pawn h4? and h5? and makes senseless moves with the rooks
>and the knights.So we have another example that ratinglists of computerchess are
>far away from the reality.

No argument there.  But Junior has clearly proven its worth in human
competitions.  In fact, Junior is definitely one of the pioneering efforts in
that arena, with Israel league games from many years ago when only the Rebel
team were doing anything like that besides Amir.  Look here:
http://home.interact.se/~w100107/manmachine.htm



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