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Subject: Re: Deep Shredder vs. Vladimir Kramnik ... what thinking the programmers of

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 18:08:12 04/14/01

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On April 14, 2001 at 20:12:16, Bertil Eklund wrote:

>Yes, of course it is better to play a challenge against two or three of the
>strongest programs on SMP-machines (40-60 games or so), then play a short
>tournament with a lot of the second-best programs against humans in a few
>rounds. One of the best performances I have seen against humans was with Comet
>on slow hardware in a human-tournament, not a bad program but I believe that in
>example Deep-Shredder is much, much better.

I don't think that is a reasonable solution given the presumed hardware
difference, not even if the tournament preceded the final exhaustive battle
between the best engines to avoid the lottery solution.

Do you know anything about the qualification tournament?

Mogens.



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