Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 22:53:45 04/15/02
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On April 15, 2002 at 12:13:37, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 15, 2002 at 11:53:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 15, 2002 at 10:02:48, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On April 15, 2002 at 08:56:27, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >>> >>>>On April 15, 2002 at 08:17:04, Claudio A. Amorim wrote: >>>> >>>>>So, are these the programs supposed to play at a 2700 level? Sure, they win many >>>>>games against strong humans, but... Where is their chess competency? Shredder´s >>>>>errors against Smirin were so elementary that they would not fit well in a >>>>>strong club player´s blitz game. >>>> >>>>Let's not go crazy over ONE game! we need to ask these questions after the >>>>match, also you can not say "So, are these the programs supposed to play at a >>>>2700 level?" when this is a games based on one programs performance! >>>>Other than that i agree, it was not pretty... >>>> >>>>Regards >>>>Jonas >>> >>>Thanks, Jonas people here are precipitating the outcome already based on one >>>single lost by Deep Shredder. I would like to point out that even Kasparov >>>himself lost several games in less than 35 moves to players less than 2700. It >>>is NOT that Computers programs which are estimated to be rated 2700 has >>>performed like a 1700, it simply did not calculated the outcome of the King Side >>>attack. >>> >>>Pichard >> >> >>Not "did not calculate". Instead, "did not understand"... > >Computers understand nothing. >They only calculate. > >The evaluation function is only calculation based on a formula that the >programmmer told the computer. Yes, this is correct. That's why in order to make a good opening book I try to understand this and find out the resulting weaknesses and strong points which every player has, no matter if it is a chess program or a human player. You are quite competent, but this is not a secret:-)) Regards Sandro > >Uri
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