Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:41:39 01/19/06
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On January 19, 2006 at 09:01:07, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>On January 19, 2006 at 08:45:23, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>>I think that if a program doesn't know not to repeat a losing line
>>>then it deserves it's fate.
>>
>>There's only one problem: it isn't the engine's fault.
>>
>
>You mean it's not the fault of the engine if it makes a decisive fault in a
>chess game? I think this is a simple wordplay but it has no real value as a
>verdict.
The choice of openings is not made by the engine, but by the book used and the
parameters chosen in the program (such as the Fritz interface, Arena, etc.). The
engine makes no opening choice of any kind. So this huge repetition of openings
is not Rybka's choice/fault but the fault of the openings settings used. Rybka
just played the openings it was told to. It had no choice in the matter when it
was told to play the same opening 31 times.
Albert
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