Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 14:09:51 09/01/98
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On September 01, 1998 at 14:35:24, Mark Young wrote: <BIG SNIP> >I agree we need more data, but because of this crafty bug and how much it did >differ in performance against humans and computers has to raise a few alarm >bells in our faith of computer Vs computer testing. Who is to say that there >could not be a program that could perform wonders playing humans, but could not >win a game against computers, without having a bug. The Crafty results makes >computer Vs computer testing very suspect in my eyes. If the goal of chess >programming is still to beat top human players. If you keep improving against other computers you are still improving and perhaps you can reach the goal ( to beat top humans ) in the end. Even if you did not go the shortest route! Torstein
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