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Subject: Re: Don't forget CC Challenge!

Author: chris sergel

Date: 14:55:45 03/22/00

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I've played two informal games with S. Ham, and have corresponded with him.
I know he has a theory of making "the absolute best objective move."
I've disagreed with him about this and this has been discussed.  I feel I can't
probably find the absolutly best move move anyway and want to play a move more
in the style as to how I want to play the game.
S. Ham will play against the computer as he would play against a person and this
makes the games interesting.

I think the flaw in the match is that there are two objectives to the match and
these objectives are not necessarily together.

One objecive is to say -
"how will chess programs do against a stong correspondence player?"
in other words  - who will win

Another objective (which I think is causing some conflict) is -
"what are the processes that go on in the human and the computer in a
match of correspondence player against computer? - what are there thinking
processes" - in other words - what are they thinking

I believe these are both worthwhile goals and I enjoy seeing what the
computer thinks, and I enjoy seeing what Ham thinks of the positions.

Perhaps it would have been better to attempt to achieve these two different
objectives in two different matches.




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