Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:19:15 10/18/97
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On October 18, 1997 at 04:18:21, Christophe Theron wrote: > >On October 17, 1997 at 12:33:23, Randolph S. Baker wrote: > >>Incidentally, this reminds me of a subplot of one Star Trek TNG episode. >>What if Kasparov had deliberately played to draw every game from the >>beginning against DB instead of attempting to win? (Then again, it may >>be that Black is generally willing to settle for draws anyway, going for >>wins as White, so this may not be a meaningful question) > >Shhh! > >Please stop posting things like that. If human players are reading, they >are going to understand what to do against programs: just try to draw. >And when the program makes the mistake (sure it will), play for the win! > >Ok, maybe it doesn't work any more for DB, or the top commercial >programs. But it works for many programs. I wouldn't like another Levy >to play against Tiger! > > >- Christophe - Join us on ICC. :) this is already a big problem. This is likely going to cost me (Crafty) dearly in Paris, because I have made it quite aggressive to thwart this type of opponent. It rarely will "sit and wait"... It will take some action that makes the game move toward a decisive result, although it is not always the result I'd like to see. I personally suspect that this stuff is going to blow up in Paris, but I'm not planning on taking any of it out... But the problem is real, and serious. The commercial programs suffer from this quite seriously... to the point that the operators of many of these programs won't play the humans that "can draw almost at will" (this in the words of one genius operator on ICC, found in his finger notes.) :)
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