Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:10:14 11/16/03
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On November 16, 2003 at 06:28:37, Sune Larsson wrote: >On November 16, 2003 at 05:38:20, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On November 16, 2003 at 05:20:04, Gerhard Sonnabend wrote: >> >>>Hi ! >>> >>>As you can see since (deep)fritz 7 there is no progress against other engines. >>>It looks like that frans has tried to optimize his creation for playing >>>against strong humans - a good decision. > > >> >>No >> >>We have no evidence if new Fritz is better or worse against humans and it is not >>a good decision because the customer cannot care less if the program get 99% or >>99.1% against him. >> >>Uri > > > No > > You do not and cannot know what "the customer" cares about. You can only speak > for yourself. Do you really think all the tournament players/corr players care > about machine vs machine games? Can you even imagine that they just *might* be > interested in ideas from a chessprogram that they can use in games vs other > humans? At least this is a possibility - yes? If a program is better then it gives better ideas. If a program is not better against other programs then I do not expect it to give better ideas for correspondence games when the opponent can use other programs. > Speaking for myself, I welcome this development, i.e. making the programs play > more "humanlike" chess (without the human tactical errors of course). Junior > is very interesting here - giving up material in cramped positions in order > to free the game etc. > > /S I did not talk against sacrificing material and I think that it can help in comp-comp games(Junior improves in the ssdf list relative to previous versions). Uri
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