Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 11:15:11 11/30/03
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On November 30, 2003 at 14:10:45, Slater Wold wrote: >Is not so suspect... > >Johannes Zwanzger said that Shredder was clearly won, and that he did not want >to 'steal the victory' from Shredder because of a stupid bug. THAT is why he >did not get a TD, and kept playing. It was Johannes Zwanzger's choice, and no >one else. > >Shredder won. Period. I think it depends on whether you believe programs should be allowed to blunder, and whether operators should be completely passive, or whether they should be allowed to use their own judgment to change the outcome. My own preference is to eliminate the human operator as a variable, however noble his intentions. Otherwise you end up with results that seem chivalrous at one level, but have absurd consequences at the level of the entire tournament. Plus, human variables should be eliminated because it's intended to be engine versus engine. Roger
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