Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 22:16:04 08/01/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 00:49:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 01, 2001 at 13:47:40, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Bob: >>A denegation of facts so extreme as even considering nil and devoid of sense a >>6-0 score is againts your academic and scientific quality. If such a thing >>happened, of course every idea about Fritz and his relation with Deep blue >>should be revised. If you still think things are so and so, then you are not >>supporting an hipothesys or even a raw fact, but a dogmatic tenet. >>Fernando > > >You aren't paying attention to what I wrote. Whether Fritz gets smashed or >smashes, doesn't have a _thing_ to do with how Fritz compares to DB. It simply >doesn't compare, yet. A factor of 100X is ridiculous to overcome. Play your- >self a 10 game match, ponder=off, one side getting 100X as much time, and >draw a conclusion. It is obvious. I refuse to declare them permanent world champion by acclaim. If they want to be considered the best program, let them play, rather than dismissing everyone else as not worth their time. The idea that we should accept their supremacy based upon zero games with other computers is absurd. That goes against all principles of science and common sense. I have a hard time getting on Frans' case for those remarks. DB obviously didn't convince him of anything, and that's not *his* fault. I don't think he has much basis for those remarks, but big deal. bruce
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