Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:26:59 08/31/98
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On August 31, 1998 at 21:33:14, Mark Young wrote: >I know, but the gulf between computer Vs computer results and computer Vs human >results has now reach a point of absurdity. Take your program for example. >Crafty went –16, =4, +0 playing Junior 5. If you add the games I played with >Fritz 5 also a fast searcher the results are –21, =4, +0 for Crafty. That would >suggest a rating difference of 392 points. Which would make Crafty only an >expert rated chess player. Crafty is not the only program that suffers for this. >M-chess pro has taken a big hit in Ed’s testing. Rebel has also but to a lesser >extent. The point being with the result so skewed now. Is computer Vs computer >testing more harmful then helpful to chess programmer and the buying public, >unless the goal of chess programmers is now to just try and beat each other and >the hell with the consumer and how the program performs when playing people. Something that people don't want to believe, but which might be very true, is that A can completely destroy B, but both of them could do equally well against C, especially given that we have hundreds of different combinations of hardware and software. I think some of the programs might be more vulnerable to getting outsearched than others. bruce
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