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Subject: Re: GMs vs Computers, A Human Mistake (IMO)

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 10:05:07 03/20/02

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On March 19, 2002 at 16:04:26, Peter Berger wrote:

>On March 19, 2002 at 15:36:24, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:
>
>>Against older versions of crafty, it was terrible when out of book (versions
>>11.x if I remember correctly). It was easy for me to get a huge positional
>>advantage that I sometimes blew later. Maybe I should play some serious games
>>but the computer will beat me, I guess. It might be fun, but I should set the
>>proper environment.
>>
>
>Do you sometimes play "serious" games against your brain child Gaviota? Is it
>any real advantage to be the programmer of it in real games? Gaviota is strong -
>still rating-wise it should be similar to your own one on faster hardware I
>suppose.

I guess...
I almost never play against gaviota. Very few times and always for testing
purposes.
I think that I am scared :-) it is a lose-lose situation. If I win, it will
confirm that I am lousy chess programmer. If a lose I might get mad!

>It could be a very nice, fun and thrilling "WinBoard" event, too. For example
>games could be played at ICC (very objective conditions). We could have a
>webpage featuring the match and I am interested enough to sponsor and host
>little Gaviota it if this adds to the motivation :).

That would be interesting, in fact it would be good for me and for Gaviota since
I might find things to correct (things to correct in my brain would be
more difficult :-)

Regards,
Miguel

>Regards,
>pete



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