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Subject: Re: SSDF Rating Irregularities

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 23:26:26 12/11/99

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>Posted by Robert Hyatt on December 11, 1999 at 21:08:12:
>
>Comp vs Comp will say nothing about how comp vs human goes.  IE for an example,
>Tiger 12 looks _very_ strong vs computers, but so-so against humans.  I have
>not yet studied its games very carefully, although I now have a couple of dozen
>games vs Crafty on ICC and FICS.  It seems to be perfectly tuned to beat
>computers... it seems very materialistic and ready to accept any gambit offered,
>and they try to make the opponent justify it accurately. 

>How it is going to do once it is out 'en masse' will be very interesting to
>watch. 

Same here.


>But it clearly isn't doing _nearly_ as well vs humans (even with anti-human on)
>as it is doing against other programs...

Do you have some game examples that supports your strong judgement?

Ed


>Which is completely not surprising.  I said several years ago that to attempt to
>write a program to blast to the top of the SSDF is a _totally_ different thing
>from trying to write a program to blast to the top of the FIDE rating list.
>
>The games are too different...




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