Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:59:20 03/23/02
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On March 23, 2002 at 06:56:20, Michael Vox wrote: >On March 21, 2002 at 22:31:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Actually, winning the WMCCC or WCCC events _does_ mean something. Just not >>what _many_ think it means. >> >>:) >> >>It just means that on that particular week, that particular program played >>better than the other programs. Doesn't say a thing about how the programs >>would do against humans, or how later versions would do against _anything_. > >Do you feel your quote applies to Shredder ? > >I think after the number of wins it has had in tournament play, it deserves a >significant amount of praise rather than being fluffed off. I think that the important tournament is the ssdf and not the championship. Being better in special preperation against the opponent is more important in tournaments like wccc. I believe that the shredder team does better opening preperation in choosing an opening that the opponent does not know to play well. I think that one of the things that may be more fair in wccc is if it is possible not to let the computers not to know the opponent. It means that the programs shuld be ready to play without knowing their opponents and only after the game starts the opponent will become known. Of course it is impossible to do it completely in the swiss system but at least it is possible to do it in the first rounds. Uri
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