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Subject: Re: Junior 8 Test Complete: J8 vs CM9k +23/-8/=19 (65%) +107 elo

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 10:38:58 08/24/03

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On August 24, 2003 at 11:28:29, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>There is a big problem with this match: You did not use the Chessmaster opening
>book for CM .This is like separating the head from body.Opening books are >indeed part of the program.Also I should note that (and I have said this many
>times) that comp vs comp matches prove nothing about how a program will do
>against humans:That is Program A may be stronger than program B by 100 Elo in
>Comp vs Comp ;but Program B may be stronger by 100 Elo than program A when
>playing only humans.

>Both Fritz and Junior were disasters in the matches against
>Kasparov and Kramnik.

Why a performance of 2800+ ELO is a disaster?
Even if Kramnik didn't make some stupid things(3-ply mistake or the more
difficult draw in game 6,or the Nxf7(didn't fit in the style he played
in the match)), or Kasparov won the last game the result would be extremely
good for comps.

>In any case I do not see the points in these
>Comp Matches(We need more human vs Comp) as SSDF is doing a great job pitting
>programs against each other.



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