Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:53:21 06/19/98
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On June 19, 1998 at 17:07:01, Bela Andrew Evans wrote: >Hi Fernando -- I think your idea of bringing master players home >to play our computers is a good one -- especially in terms of >fairness. By acting as a referee, we could make sure these players >weren't using any opening books, weren't taking back moves, etc. >Howver, it would be difficult for any one person to get much data >in this fashion -- personally I don't have any friends who are >masters (darn!), and I can't see much of an incentive for people to >come over and play for hours vs. my computer. > >You know, possibly those interested in human-computer games should >take fuller advantage of the chess servers. That is probably the >only place to find enough good humans. Someone (or a group of >computer chess enthusiasts with similar hardware) could test their >favorate programs one by one. The challenge would be to standardize >the matches to make the results comparable. For example, maybe test >at only a couple of standard time controls; give the operator >license to takeback mistaken move input; make the games publicly >available for verification purposes. Would CCC members be interested Hi Bela: What you propose would be the ideal solution except by a simple thing: as far as I have seen, 99,99% of games in Internet sites are very fast ones, the kind of games that does not say too much new about computer because we already know how good they are in that. Respect to friends invited home, I say that master kind of player would be ideal, but experts or even rated A or B class players would be good. We don't want just master to play the computer, do we? A good 1900 or 2000 player, officially rated so, it's good enough. Fernando >in creating this standard? Any interest?
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