Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 05:13:21 11/13/97
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On November 13, 1997 at 07:21:59, Bas Hamstra wrote: >>>>Amir Ban wrote: > >>As for luck, everybody talks about it far too much. A chess game is NOT >>a random event. When chess programmers talk about luck, they mean that >>there are some things that they don't want or don't know how to control. >>Everybody has this problem at some level, but maybe the better programs >>simply know how to control what their competitors foolishly call luck ? > >Ok, then maybe we could invent a new word for the phenomenon that 3 >consecutive tournaments with exactly the same programs give 3 different >winners. How would you propose to call it? > >If you would play tournaments of 1000 rounds, however, it's pretty sure >the same program wins every time. > >To paraphrase Percy agains Blackadder: > >So, what's NOT luck, but WORKS like luck. That's a good one mylord... > First law of computer chess: there is no such thing as a strongest computer chess program Second law of life: chasing holy grails is fun but ultimately pointless Chris Whittington > > >Bas Hamstra.
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