Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 10:51:42 07/18/00
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On July 18, 2000 at 08:50:37, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >On July 18, 2000 at 04:38:33, Ed Schröder wrote: >>I simply rely on the fact that people have a brain. >>Ed > >Even if this poll was presented after several argumetns about why positional >play should be considered important, and hence it can look biased, I don't think >I ever had the impression it was presented to "poove" anything about rebel vs >fritz, but rather it gave me the impression to be a way of yours (Ed) to probe >the taste of your present and potential customers. You got it. At the time I was really wondering what people expect from a chess engine nowadays and Internet is an easy way to get an impression. >Biasing an answer to be given to yourself would have been the worst way of >mistaking by wishful thinking. > >On the other side, I read the answers as that of many Italians that pretend that >their wife/mother behaves "honestly", while they try to seduct others (wifes and >mothers of other people of course). >I mean many (not all) have answered "yes make rebel stronger from the positional >poin of view", while they were buying the newest version of Fritz/Junior, and >even Tiger, may be beacuse it was just faster in calcualting. Exactly. Many love to solve difficult test positions with the help of a chess program or play auto232 games do analysis etc. Not all like to play against it only. At the time I was mainly interested on peoples opinion how to spend my (programming) time on the engine. Alternative lesser important questions were about a possible difference in performance between human-comp and comp-comp. Here the poll is certainly leading people to answer as I was (and still am) convinced of that and the introduction to the poll is full of it. It doesn't deserve the prize for beauty I know, on the other hand the point was too important (and complicated) to let it pass and perhaps get an unfounded answer in return. Another intriguing piece of information was the simple question who is best in human-comp and comp-comp and compare the 2 lists. Quite risky but I was too eager to know and couldn't resist to ask. Today the 2 lists are hopelessly out-dated since newer versions are around and quite a few new events have passed (GM challenge, Dutch-ch, Israel League, Dortmund, latest SSDF list). Ed >regards >Franz >(from Italy)
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