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Subject: Re: Junior-Crafty - VOID - Restart?

Author: Steve Lim

Date: 19:14:21 11/25/03

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On November 25, 2003 at 21:33:23, Peter Berger wrote:

>On November 25, 2003 at 21:03:38, Steve Lim wrote:
>
>>Considering the bug and the fact that the match has only a 5 game history, would
>>you consider restarting the match with the workaround in place?
>>
>>I consider the results void IMO. I know its alot of work. Just my opinion in the
>>interest of the pursuit 'truth/science' whatever.
>>
>>my opinion,
>>
>>Regardless,
>>thanks for taking the time to run this.
>>
>>Steve.
>
>Steve, let's stay real.
>
>When I look at the first five games I see 4 ordinary about even book lines for
>both, that didn't have any major influence on the game result, and one forced
>book win for Crafty. To say that the results are void is grossly exagurrated.
>
>What if tomorrow's game shows some unknown bug in Junior? Will the same rules
>apply? Who knows why Junior played the horrible h5 move in the second to last
>game? Maybe some bug?
>
>It's a match - in case there is some error from my side I'll consider to rerun
>of course - same if something were setup in a wrong way - but programs will
>commit errors that might be due to either short-comings or bugs - else all games
>would be perfect and probably drawn.
>
>All the best,
>Peter

You make some good points. Once again, thanks for doing this experiment.

Cheers,
Steve



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