Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:06:32 05/17/00
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On May 17, 2000 at 05:10:55, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On May 16, 2000 at 23:17:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>In this case, it is pretty clear. Bosboom refused to play. He played a few >>moves to meet the letter of the rule that said "if you don't play the machine, >>you lose the chance to win the bigger prize." IMHO he simply "refused to show >>up" but it was a "practical refusal to play" and not a "technical refusal to >>play"... >> >>I'm much more interested in seeing how the program _really_ does, without all >>the silliness of the humans factored in. Although now it is impossible to do. >>I would count the last Fritz draw as a win, IMHO. It couldn't lose with the >>opponent having so little time. > >Without counting the Bosboom game, the TPR of Fritz is about 2610, good enough >for a GM norm. But looking at the quality of its games, nobody would have >guessed that a grand master played them. > >Enrique That's not uncommon. Meat makes mistakes. Silicon doesn't. It is _very_ hard to win a won game vs a computer. Unfortunately the computer finds the same, since it has one win, one loss, and a bunch of draws. I think Fritz has done quite well, personally... Although it has definitely played like a "computer".
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