Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:45:28 04/19/01
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On April 19, 2001 at 13:27:37, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:
>On April 19, 2001 at 11:54:21, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On April 19, 2001 at 11:48:08, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>So let's find a SOLUTION!
>>>
>>>I won't go into Deep Details here, but let me tell you that I can easily write a
>>>program that nobody could ever prepare against, especially given the (known)
>>>conditions of the match.
>>>
>>>You do not have to be a chess programmer to know how to do that.
>>
>>My suggestion would be to put an if on top of your eval function and let
>>it return random numbers before the day of the match.
>>
>>Of course, they lawyers will sue you till poverty if they find out.
>
>Somewhat more subtle would be to put the weights for the components of your eval
>into an external file, and give them a version with this file filled with random
>numbers (or numbers significantly, but not grossly, different from the real
>ones).
It would work. Maybe it's not needed to be so nasty, however. :)
Christophe
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