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Subject: Re: Computers in national championships

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 02:38:52 04/07/00

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On April 07, 2000 at 05:18:09, Tony Werten wrote:

>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.

Fine, that is exactly what I wrote before. :-)



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