Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 19:08:24 06/17/99
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Hi Dan: You are right, of course, but there is a practical point regarding the nature of a test that must be taken into account; his meaning in terms of human usefulness. The example of you race is good precisely to show that: the experiment would be right as a test of the fastest vehicle on wheels, but meaningless, preposterous and something to laugh at. Experiments must be not only logical, but to have a sense. You, as a scientis, know that very well; you prepare an experiment not just because it can be done in his own terms, but to probe something that is important for human purposes, theoretic or practical. Then, when people talks of the sense of this tournament where programs are running in monster kind of hardware, what probably they try to say is that the experiment, even if logical, is not meaningful for his necesities and in fact for almost 99% of people that uses chess programs. What is meaningful for us is what has a relation with our practice. Monsters running at 800 Mhz or so are not reachable for common folk and so the test is meaningless in that specific but very important aspect. Logic is not all and becomes ridiculous without a dosis of common sense. Fact is that we are not going to conclude nothing of the results of this tournaments not only because the few rounds, but because the brute force being used into it. Cheers fernando
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