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Subject: Re: New SSDF-list!!!

Author: blass uri

Date: 15:48:28 01/31/00

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On January 31, 2000 at 16:49:41, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On January 31, 2000 at 15:49:50, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>>> It's fascinating that it
>>>>still is possible to increase the playing strength of chess
>>>>programs, measured in the way SSDF does.
>>
>>If you measure playing strength. i don't see you do. there is no
>>doubt that you measure something.
>>
>>>Impressive!
>>
>>no. not impressive.
>>wasting time.
>
>Oh come on.
>
>>>Congrats to Amir and Shay.
>>
>>true.
>>they have nothing to do with the ssdf-guys mistesting their program.
>>they cannot be blamed for it of course.
>
>Then what is the difference between your tournament and the SSDF?
>
>Ed

1)The main difference is that his tournament is not tournament of long matches
so he does not count cases when program win the same game again and again.

Thorsten does not measure the learning of programs in matches.

2)There is a simple way to increase the "playing strength of chess
programs, measured in the way SSDF does".

You can simply autoplay many games against Fritz3(p90) and many commercial
programs tested by the ssdf and remember the winning games as part of the
opening book.

I know nobody who does it but it does not change the fact that it is possible to
increase the ssdf rating significantly without improving the engine in this way.

Uri



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