Author: Graham Laight
Date: 10:11:27 10/12/04
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On October 12, 2004 at 13:07:22, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On October 12, 2004 at 10:28:16, Graham Laight wrote: > >>Hydra seems to be a god-like system in its ability to pick out the profoundly >>brilliant move. Is it available to play against online anywhere? If ever there >>was a justification for charging a fee for a game of chess, then Hydra has it in >>spades! In competition after competition, it just keeps on punching in those >>brilliant performances. >> >>We have also known for many years that Fritz is outstanding - Franz and >>Mattheius (sp?) have long had a subliminally fast system - but for the past >>several years, they've also had a strategic system, with quite outstanding >>positioning skills. For them to equal Hydra's Bilbao score with only a 1.9 GHz >>processor represents consolidation of their position at the top of the >>programmers' tree. >> >>Then we have Junior - which flopped. What was it doing in the computer team? It >>was the only computer to get a negative score against the humans - and was well >>short of what its team-mates achieved (see >>http://www.ajedrezbilbao.com/cResultadosEN.htm). >> >>How does one explain such a poor performance by Junior, which had massively >>superior hardware to Fritz? Should we ask the Junior programmers to forward >>their program to to Franz Morsch for advice and improvement? >> > >Reading comments like yours, I come to the conclusion that an Introduction to >Statistics course should be made mandatory as a prerequisite for joining CCC... I obtained a university qualification in statistics 20 years ago (I did an ancillary in statistics as part of my computing degree). -g >>-g
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