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Subject: Re: Bad Joke?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:01:02 04/17/01

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On April 17, 2001 at 02:03:54, Uri Blass wrote:

>The ssdf list is based on more games.
>Shredder was never number 1 in this list.
>
>It is considered to be also an important tournament and I do not see a reason to
>assume that the WMCCC or the WCCC are the only important tournaments.
>
>Uri


The SSDF isn't a "tournament".  The first thing you have to have to survive
is a strong book learning algorithm.  Otherwise the best program in the world
will get racked up and bagged.  It is _much_ more difficult to play and win
in a tournament than it is to play and win a match.  Particularly if your
book-learning algorithm works better than your opponent, or if your opponent
doesn't even have one at all...

Where in a tournament it doesn't help a bit...



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