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Subject: Re: Three Brain Schredder

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 17:28:49 11/17/00

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On November 17, 2000 at 17:20:25, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>I have a question. Well, several:
>a) The engine that decides in three engines setting is Schredder himself or
>another, specific engine?
>b) If it is Schredder or just a version of it, I suppose it just choose the move
>that fits whith his internal preference, but then we have Schreder again playing
>the game, or almost, exception made of cases where no of the other two engines
>propose a move likable for Schredder.
>c) If it is not, how this entity compares with Schredder IF two top programs are
>harnessed toguether? I suppose many experiment has been already performed before
>delivery.
>All this is important to me because I cannot see another reason to purchase the
>new version as much as I already have Schredder 4 and he is more than enough to
>kick my ass. So I need a very good reason to twist the arm of my common sense.
>

Someone said that there's not a dime's worth of difference between the top
programs.  If true, then having two of them working simultaneously will not
produce a dime's worth of difference in their findings.  May as well turn one of
them off!

But if the two programs are preset to think very differently [without
diminishing the strength of either], then maybe there would be some benefit if
the voting software on the third computer did not interfere with the workings of
the two workers.  In fact, maybe the third computer could be programmed to do
something productive other than just being an arbiter.
>Fernando



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