Author: Larry Proffer
Date: 08:47:23 05/03/01
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On May 03, 2001 at 11:10:51, Bertil Eklund wrote: >On May 03, 2001 at 10:45:45, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On May 03, 2001 at 06:37:52, Larry Proffer wrote: >> >>>>The so called impartial experts should recommend the "best" programs not all >>>>programs in the world that in theory can be better. In April I believed that it >>>>was Fritz, Junior, Shredder and Tiger(s) (alphabtical order). I don't believe it >>>>is a coincidence that the best programs ARE commercial. >>> >>>But this was not a pre-condition as suggested elsewhere by others .... >> >>That one was killed a long time ago IIRC, by various reports from the involved >>parties. The only requirements stated then and since was the SMP capability and >>naturally significant (superior) strength of the engines involved. Of course you >>can choose to invent interests of the sponsors and the obviousness of the >>superior strength of commercial programs. Some have tried that without much >>success IMO. >> >>The real problem is the experts opinion of the strength and availability issue. >>Forming an opinion on the strongest programs without even a rudimentary >>investigation is nonsensical by default. AFAIK you do not develop psychic >>abilities after being involved with computer chess for 25 years. The organizers >>would have a real explanatory problem if they included the SMP Tiger. > > >It wasn't time to play around and invite 200 programs. Instead you can check the >results from the SSDF-list, tournaments from a lot of people and so on. >Therefore it is quite easy to see that the four best (comp-comp) programs are >Fritz, Junior, Shredder and Tiger(s). Of course you can suggest 100 other ways >to check the strength, if you had all the money and all the time in the world. > >Which programs are better then the above? But Tiger(s) didn't get selected. Despite your support. Give me five, so can we see how many >that agrees with you. Ferret is supposed to be quite strong, and it did 'sniff' the draw in Kasparov Deep-Blue. Nothing else did. Including Kasparov. Crafty is supposed to be quite strong at human-computer. Or so I read. Both are SMP. Probably there are some others. Did de Konig make an SMP King, for example? You didn't need to invite 200 programs. Just send a few emails asking for information. > >Bertil
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