Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:03:05 06/25/01
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On June 25, 2001 at 00:22:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 24, 2001 at 23:06:09, Slater Wold wrote: > >>I am holding a qualifing match between ALL the top programs. The time control >>will be 25/10 and it will be a 3 cycle Round Robin. >> >>The purpose of this tournament is to qualify an engine to go against several >>2500+ GM's in the next 5-6 months. These games will also be played at 25/10. >> >>Each game will be played on a Dual Pentium III 1,000Mhz ~ 184MB hash. Pondering >>will be on, and the default book will be used, at tournament levels. > > >One question: what is the point of playing computers against each other, to >choose one to play against a human? Isn't this like playing 9 holes of golf >to choose the challenger for the world champion in the shot put? In most of the cases the better program against computers is also better against humans. I do not know about one top program against computers that is weaker than 2200 against humans when there are a lot of amateurs against computers that are also weaker than 2200 against humans. I do not know about one top program against humans who has less than 2200 ssdf rating. (I say 2200 only to be careful and I could say a bigger number) Saying that we can learn nothing from the results against computers about the results against humans is wrong. Uri
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