Author: Tony Werten
Date: 02:18:09 04/07/00
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On April 07, 2000 at 05:04:02, Harald Faber wrote: >On April 07, 2000 at 04:48:05, Tony Werten wrote: > > >>I don't. I'm just stating that if you want the best under-21 player, you look at >>his results against other under-21's. Not at his results against above 21's, >>because these have nothing to do with his being champion under 21. >> >>If you want the best program, you should look at his performance against other >>programs. >> >>Tony > > >Sorry, I disagree again. Yes, at least we seem to be agreeing on that. >If there are already results from this program (and there ARE) against humans, >one should take a look at them. And as there are other programs competing humans >too, it is easy to compare the programs in their performance against humans. >And as the main part here for the dutch Ch is to play comp-human one should >consider the former results of comp-human and NOT comp-comp. One could, but then you're meassering something different. If you do it like this, the best under-21 player would be the one with the best results against over-21's. Which is different from the under-21 champion. > >BTW I'd prefer to have seen Fritz or any other chess program go through the >qualifying to have a fair competition.
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