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Subject: Re: A New Self-Play Experiment in Computer Chess: one interesting notice

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 06:18:08 05/25/00

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On May 25, 2000 at 08:58:13, blass uri wrote:

>I am not against the general idea of playing without the opening books.
>
>I am simply against the idea of doing it without the agreement of the
>programmers.

Basically, I can test _any_ program with the parameters I choose AFAIK. If I did
own a couple of commercial programs, I would gladly conduct a test without
opening book and publish the results here and on my website. The importance
would be somewhat theoretical, but interesting nonetheless. The implementation
of opening game learning would ensure to a certain degree that the games were
not identical.

>I think that you should at least tell the programmers one year before you do
>this test in order to give them time to prepare a better version for this test.

I don't see why. The program is commercially available, so playing without a
book should be a feature of the program itself.

>It is not fair to test a program in conditions that the programmer did not think
>about.

What makes you think that "a programmer" didn't consider implementing opening
knowledge.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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