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Subject: Re: JRLOK?!

Author: Chessfun

Date: 07:59:47 06/23/01

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On June 23, 2001 at 07:19:13, Lin Harper wrote:

>    If JRLOK or anyone else finds weaknesses in a chess program
>  and seizes on them to lift his rating above what it normally
>  would be, then that's fine. This guy has got Crafty's number,
>  and he's making the most out of it.

I don't think that's exactly true.
Roman finds weaknesses and probes them till he wins, then he hammers
them. Bob fixes these holes, then Roman finds others. IMHO Roman could
do this with any PC program. In the case of the other programs once Roman
had found the hole he could get to 3800 as there isn't anyone to fix those
other programs holes.


>    If Crafty loses regularly to him then surely that's fault in
>  the program, and it's the programmer's fault (no offence). Don't
>  these programs learn by their mistakes?

It isn't the case of a simple mistake. Roman seizes a positional advantage that
he knows will win in an endgame and he simple steers the game to it. There isn't
much learning that can be done against a player such as this.

Sarah.




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