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Subject: Re: Just comparing lists...

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 05:43:12 10/25/02

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On October 25, 2002 at 08:25:48, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 25, 2002 at 08:04:37, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>On October 25, 2002 at 07:49:17, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>>Look at the Kramnik-Fritz match games 2 and 3. In tactical positions, with lots
>>of pieces and queens, chess engines are not bad today (and this is indeed an
>>achievement of eng-eng matches). But in the other positions, the engines have
>>not a clue, are chanceless, and this will not improve from eng-eng matches,
>>because all the engines have this flaw.
>
>I do not think that all of them.
>There are engines that do not play a3 in game 3.
>
>Other engines have different holes in their knowledge so I do not think that
>Fritz has less knowledge than them.
>
>Uri

I do. Fritz = fast, not much knowledge. Hiarcs8 = slooow, a lot of knowledge.

Unfortunately, I don't own Fritz, so I can not prove that. But I think it's
obvious, and nothing anybody will say will change my mind. :)

Andreas



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