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Subject: Re: NO MORE human vs computer game again

Author: Mark Young

Date: 03:51:19 08/04/03

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On August 04, 2003 at 04:35:00, Janosch Zwerensky wrote:

>On August 04, 2003 at 00:31:37, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On August 03, 2003 at 18:30:50, Lei , Shiann-Tzong wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I can play a rated game with fritz 8 or junior 8 or Shredder 7
>>>and set it to the lowest rating . and win it many times a day .
>>>
>>>If you have a rating over 2400 elo , you can post your human vs machine games
>>>here .
>>>If not , don't post it .
>
>>I agree.
>>
>>It is a con job when people post games here showing wins over the top computer
>>programs.
>
>I would not call for example the games Kurt Utzinger posted here, of which one
>was a win against the machine, "con jobs". I think that at least these were
>genuine, in the sense of not being the result of a lot of trial and error on
>Utzinger's side.


"I think that at least these were
genuine, in the sense of not being the result of a lot of trial and error on
Utzinger's side."

WoW! What can I say to this....It is not a con job when they only cheat a
little??? And post the game as a real win.

You are more forgiving then I am...I am a tournament player, and rules of play
mean things. It only takes 1 move to change the course of a game, so taking back
only 1 time is cheating. Finding how a computer will responed in advance to a
opening shot to probe for weakness is cheating. When you post the game on CCC as
a true win.


>If one plays ultra-solid chess and tries not to achieve anything beyond a draw,
>quite often a top program will not try hard enough get into an unbalanced
>position and the human, although a much weaker player than the program, will get
>his draw (or even rarely win if horizon effect strikes on the computer side, or
>more often lose, if the human misses some tactical shot). I am not sure that not
>knowing the opening book used by the program will make much of a difference,
>although I admitt that this is a real possiblity.
>However, I also think that any player below master level would be dead meat
>against the top programs no matter how they approached the problem if not only
>the opening book but also the relevant parts of the evaluation function of a
>strong program would be tuned in advance for anti-patzer-play.
>
>Regards,
>Janosch



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