Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 09:46:46 06/09/03
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Suppose all engines had all parameters public for every one to edit. Now all these engines would have to play under equal conditions in getting a rating, right? Well that means if one engine is improved by the users, then all the other engines should have the same chance, or the conditions are simply not equal. I don't believe that any chess program has 100% optimal parameters, so this would practicly be possible to do for any engine. It isn't right to hand over the job of optimizing to the users, this is like 50% of chess programming, so it would be cheating IMO. -S. It seems this would only encourage other programmers to allow tweaking of their programs. Certainly Chessmaster's reputation isn't tarnished by finding strongers personalities. I think it's a win win situation for the programmers and the public and puts the fun back into computer chess. In the very near future the only debate left concerning humans vs computers will be whether a correspondence player can still beat a computer program.
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