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Subject: Re: Just comparing lists...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:49:17 10/25/02

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On October 25, 2002 at 07:43:52, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On October 25, 2002 at 07:12:38, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On October 25, 2002 at 06:51:45, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>On October 25, 2002 at 06:29:07, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>No
>>>>I did not think only about crafty.
>>>>There were other cases when programmers released versions with no improvement or
>>>>at least it is not clear if there was an improvement:
>>>>Gandalf,Nimzo,Mchess,Genius
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>Based on eng-eng matches I guess.
>>>
>>>-S.
>>
>>I think that most people care only about them.
>>I do not care about games against humans because it is clearly only a question
>>of time until computers beat humans at all time controls.
>>
>>comp-comp is the interesting struggle and being better in comp-comp can also
>>help to get better results against humans.
>>
>>Computer also can play for the same ideas that humans play so being better at
>>beating them means in most cases also being better against humans.
>>
>>There are programs that can play for king attack and I do not think that you
>>need humans to see the problems of your program against king attack if you have
>>these problems.
>>
>>You can let your program play against sjeng.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I disagree. Better performance in eng-eng matches is no guarantee that a
>programm performs better in matches against humans.
>
>And it leads the whole computer chess development into the false direction,
>with no new concepts.

I see no reason why not.
New concepts can be productive to beat chess programs.

Uri



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