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Subject: Re: SSDF and the programmers............

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 12:58:40 03/18/98

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On March 18, 1998 at 09:21:58, Harald Faber wrote:

>It can only work IF SSDF starts testing COMMERCIAL AVAILABLE PROGAMS,
>meaning not only available but also bought!
>So there can't be possible cheats or hidden autoplayers etc.
>Only test what anybody can buy at the store or whereever.
>
>THAT is fair.

You can never have a "fair" list as long as the new version of program A
(with learning or with a lot of human opening book intervention) has
played 5,000 autoplayer games against the current version of program B
(with or without learning) in the lab, and then programs A and B are
played against each other by the SSDF people.

The one who releases most recently has an advantage.

Intensive training against specific opponents screws everything up.

bruce

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