Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:08:06 03/16/04
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On March 15, 2004 at 17:23:32, Steven Edwards wrote: >On March 15, 2004 at 16:52:40, martin fierz wrote: >>On March 15, 2004 at 16:38:53, Steven Edwards wrote: > >>>Hmmn. Maybe I should offer a wager or two here to the doubters. Like, if I >>>can't get this to work, then I'll stop complaining about the mundane nature of >>>traditional A/B searchers; if I do get it too work, each doubter can send me a >>>new battery for one of my Macintosh notebooks. (Approx. US$150 each.) >> >>i'll accept the wager, but you have to define "can't get this to work" a bit >>more clearly for me. e.g. IIRC your list had an item "become world champion", >>and i would accept that you had "got it to work" long before that. >>for me, the getting it to work part has to be spelled out as some kind of rating >>level - what do you think? what level would you specify? > >Well, first let's hope our board sponsor won't get upset with a little gambling. > >I posted the primary and secondary goals back last month but can't find the CCC >reference. So you are welcome to read them again from the entry 2004.02.19 in >my journal: > >http://www.livejournal.com/users/chessnotation/ > >Point #8 in the primary goal set (combined with #12) is what I claim to be >sufficient for proof of concept, and I'll make the output public for inspection. Unlike some of the other posters, I'm less skeptical as to what you'll be able to come up with using this approach if you follow it through fully, but I do think that your targeted playing strength (1800 elo) is unreasonably low. It's acceptable for your program to be weaker than top programs, which are on today's hardware approaching 2700 strength, but not by such a wide difference. And in it's day, Paradise was able to handle its domain at expert strength. I suggest that your rating target be 2400 elo. Really. You can do it. With regard to a possible bet between you and Martin Fierz, 2200 on today's hardware seems like a fair level. Dave
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