Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 05:20:02 09/14/00
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On September 14, 2000 at 07:55:40, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 14, 2000 at 06:44:13, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>On September 14, 2000 at 05:13:14, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>On September 14, 2000 at 02:57:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>On September 14, 2000 at 02:17:58, Ed Schröder wrote: >>>>[snip] >>>>>IMO every game played in WCCC events is worth at least 10 autoplayer >>>>>games. Authors are present to solve any problem that might occur, no >>>>>book randomness, no learning involved, book preparation should ensure >>>>>that the author's program should play those lines the program likes >>>>>best. >>> >>> >>>>Barring some errant codes sent by Winboard [as is alledged for some >>>>autoplayers], I disagree completely. >>> >>>Then have a look at the last 3-5 WCCC's. If you look at the rankings >>>they don't match with for instance the SSDF list. Especially Shredder >>>comes to mind. >> >>That doesn't mean much. You can't expect the same results after 21 games (WCCC x >>3) or after 500+ games. Not even similar, probably. The contrary would be a >>surprise. >> >>Enrique > >The point is that you cannot expect the same result because the conditions are >different and not because the number of games. Right. >Different opening preperation against different opponents is important in WCCC >when it cannot help in the ssdf. Right. Commercial versions have wide opening books to be attractive for the people who are going to play against the program. In a WCCC opening lines are carefully chosen. Ed >Uri
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