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Subject: Re: A Sober Estimate of the Strength Of Modern Programs

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:18:35 03/13/00

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On March 13, 2000 at 21:48:32, Derrick Williams wrote:
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>  I meant quad xeon 400 thinking of the machine Crafty runs on at Icc. I was not
>attempting to be scientific or mathematical, I was only interested in expressing
>a guess based on intuition and expierence playing the machines. It may be
>meaningless to guess, but it is extremely interesting. Regardless of whatever or
>not there is enough hard evidence to base an opinion, people like myself want to
>get some kind of ideal (even if that Ideal is vague), of what the playing
>strength of their silicon opponents are.  In many circumstances Theory must
>always come before fact, my theory is computers are GM's, based on intuition and
>a Good amount of 40/2 games.

You make a good point:
Theory should be based on observations or well defined principles.

However, I think the observations that we have are often not well defined.

At any rate, time will tell.



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