Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:33:55 08/21/02
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On August 21, 2002 at 07:49:10, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 20, 2002 at 20:27:18, martin fierz wrote: > >In these days all programs were so bad that games were decided by >who didn't give away most pieces *usually*. > >So in that respect all games from then are biased as the level of >*every* participant was 600 points lower than they are now. That's wrong. We had >2200 programs back then. Belle was > 2200 in 1983. In 1984 Cray Blitz was 2250 officially. Hitech was almost 2500 officially. Deep Thought was >2600 officially. All of those "official" ratings were earned by playing only humans, comp vs comp was never rated officially by any organization we dealt with... > >>this kind of test is fundamentally flawed by being 100% biased: you are >>presenting a selection of positions where deep blue failed, in every single one. >>of course, if a program of today solves a single one of these, be it by luck or >>by better knowledge, it already looks good. >>there are surely lots of positions where deep blue would look good in comparison >>to a micro, but they are not included. >> >>for any meaningful comparison, you should get a set of test positions and run DB >>and your micros over it. of course you can't do that now. but if you can't make >>a meaningful comparison, the next best thing is to make none at all. not to make >>a meaningless comparison :-) >> >>aloha >> martin
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