Author: Mark Loftus
Date: 15:24:24 06/20/98
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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 >in creating this standard? Any interest? I think the internet chess servers would be a good area to explore in computer v. human testing, especially for quick chess, or blitz; and whatever we could get at standard time controls. Anyone with access to masters, experts,and class A players also would be helpful. I'm willing to do whatever I can, I can set up series with class A and B players and programs. Mark
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