Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:30:02 03/20/98
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On March 20, 1998 at 01:37:33, Keith Ian Price wrote: >I also agree with your position. I think programmers spend too much time >improving their programs for the SSDF, instead of for humans. This is >one reason I think Bob and Bruce have it right, and the true testing >agency should be the chess servers. I don't claim that ICC is superior to the SSDF for testing, just that it is wildly fun and interesting and not particularly hard to do. >Who cares if MFritzo Pro '98 can >beat GenReb 14 on SSDF if against the humans their rating is 2300 while >playing 40/2 on the chess servers. Of course, the problem is that most >games on the chess servers aren't 40/2, but if one were to arrange a >computer chess qualification tournament to be run every three months on >ICC, I bet that enough IMs and GMs would be willing to participate for >purposes of establishing true ratings. Then again, maybe not. But >without Aegon, something has to be done. Yes, there is a big problem getting long games against anything other than a weak human, a weak human cheating with CM5K, or someone who admits to be using a program, although it is often unclear which program or whether or not they played the opening and sometimes other parts of the game themselves. bruce
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