Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 12:22:12 10/12/04
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On October 12, 2004 at 15:11:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 12, 2004 at 13:11:27, Graham Laight wrote: > >>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 > >You probably need a refresher course. :) > >I just picked four pennies out of my pocket and flipped each of them 4 times. >Know what I found? One penny that will _only_ produce heads. It produced four >heads in a row, and that is _clearly_ enough samples to say how it will do for >longer tests, right? :) > >3 draws and a loss against GM players is _not_ a bad result. If you think it >is, you have a highly exaggerated opinion of how strong computers really are. >Hint: "think lower". > >based on that at least 1/2 of the GM players that enter tournaments produce very >"poor" results... Yes I believe that his expectation is too high, even Deeper Blue could have performed as bad as Deep Junior did :-) Jorge
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