Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 01:14:08 09/10/02
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Hello Martin, >>... my main philosophy: To have done a thing first is worth more than >>to repeat it in improved or refined ways. > >i think the misunderstanding is that when i say "nemesis' title is worth more >than chinook's" i mean that nemesis plays checkers better, not that nemesis >achieved more than chinook did. Thanks for this clarification. And with my limited background knowledge in Checkers I also believe that Nemesis of today is probably better than the Chinook from 1996 or 1997. Of course, "better" is a problematic term in the drawish world of Checkers. What I mean is that I would happily accept the following bet, assuming a 100-game match between Chinook and Nemesis: I get 10,000 Euro when Nemesis achieves an overall win. I lose 10,000 Euro when Chinook achieves an overall win. Nothing is paid in case of an overall draw. By the way, when I were Jonathan Schaeffer I would not put new energy in some updating of Chinook (there are other more important tasks and challenges) but simply allow a match between Nemesis-2002 and Chinook-1997, without any modernization of Chinook... Just to see what progress has been made during the years. But, of course Jonathan and me are persons of rather different temper. >e.g. i generated the 8-piece db myself, it is >smaller than the chinook db, the access code is faster, and unlike the chinook >db, it was correct on the first attempt. i know that their db building >achievement is *much* bigger - without reading their paper, i could never have >done it at all. but this does not change the fact that my db is better. Db-building was only one part of the achievement of Schaeffer's group. What also counts for Jonathan are his management qualities: he organized the whole project, for (a small) instance he toured to get computer sponsoring. Successful management is part of good science. Ingo.
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