Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 07:38:46 10/15/00
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On October 15, 2000 at 10:36:02, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On October 15, 2000 at 08:56:16, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>On the other hand (damn, there is so often another side to things), what does it >>tell you the fact that Gambit loses to Tiger, while crushing programs with a >>weak king-safety code? > >thats normal. i do not believe testing a chess program against its predecessors >makes ANY sense at all. Obviously, but you misunderstand. Tiger 13 and Gambit 1 are contemporary. Tiger beats Gambit. Now, why. Enrique > you will not find out that the NEW engine is stronger. >e.g. christophe would not have been able to find out that gambit-tiger >is stronger by letting it play against normal-tiger. >only playing with the program >against: > >a) all other programs >b) humans > >and doing > >c) test positions > >gives you an overview. > >this - of course - needs time. > >but let version x play against x+1 >definetely NOT a method to find out about the strengh of a chess program. > >the reason is easy: the amount of similar algorithms that fight >each other is too high. it is like a human beeing who should be able >to judge himself. this is also not very good possible, we need >friends with DIFFERENT point of views to correlate our own opinion well. > >same in computerchess as in human-life. instead of analysing yourself, >you should better talk with friends. > >> Speculative programs will be great, to some extent they >>already are, but do they need further refinement, suppleness, increased >>knowledge! For the moment, when I watch their games sometimes the word >>"brilliant", sometimes "fireworks" come to my mind. > >you always talk about "speculative programs". but it is more than that. >the programs shall not only have a speculative evaluation function, >they shall also PLAN something within the game. >it is one plan to mate the king. > > >>Enrique
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