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Subject: Re: Checkers: Las Vegas and Chinook

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 03:29:33 09/10/02

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On September 10, 2002 at 05:40:56, martin fierz wrote:

>On September 10, 2002 at 05:19:17, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>If you can't see the belittlement in there, then you have less intellect then I
>>give you credit for.
>wow, thank you!
>
>>I took the time to look at it over a week before I posted here about it.  Again,
>>the state of the code is irrelevant.  There is documentation of the database
>>format provided -- so you don't have to even use that code to access the
>>databases.  You can write your own access code.
>give me ONE good reason to post the database but not the access code to it. just
>ONE.

Why do you even ask for that?  There _was_ code posted.


>>I emailed the position to Jonathan and asked him if Chinook would play the right
>>move -- he replied that it did.  I assume that the search was cold (no filled
>>hash from previous searches).  So I guess it's not that bad a program. <shrug>
>
>that kind of test is plain stupid. cake will avoid the errors chinook made in
>the match against lafferty on the 2-second level. it means *nothing*.

Maybe Chinook would too today?

Dave



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