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Subject: Re: Comp-comp vs. comp-human: no difference!

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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