Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:37:10 08/15/01
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On August 15, 2001 at 17:05:22, Dann Corbit wrote: >A very entertaining contest. > >The comments of the IM's should be worth their weight in gold for the engine >programmers. Nothing like a good public scathing to make someone perk up and >take notice. >;-) I read all the IMs' comments. They are indeed VERY entertaining, but I wonder. They are talking about the programs as if they (the programs) were people. How Fritz and Junior are brothers and play the same. How they are disappointed in Hiarcs because they think it plays so well normally. How Rebel Tiger is unsound and relatively weak, whereas Gambit Tiger is sounder (!). How CM8000 is a good tutor for kids, but they (the IMs) are surprised it's doing well and shocked that it could ever beat Hiarcs. How Genius plays "the same" as the Tiger programs. As we all know, these characteristics are bogus. It's all statistics. A single game between programs can result in almost any style of game and any result. They'd have to look at a 20-game match between two programs before any comments about styles and relative strengths they (the IMs) make would have any validity. Failing that, it's kind of like reading your horoscope: it may sound plausible, but it's all hokum. My $0.02.
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