Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:19:03 01/01/04
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On December 31, 2003 at 23:22:12, Sally Weltrop wrote:
>On December 31, 2003 at 21:09:46, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On December 31, 2003 at 19:21:35, Ed Trice wrote:
>>
>>>Think about what a 2900 rating signifies: basically, you could spank a mere 2500
>>>rated player indefinitely, never incurring a loss yourself.
>>>
>>>As it would play against 2600 or 2700 caliber players, losses would occur.
>>>Against 2800 rated opponents (pretty tough to find) a 2900 program would still
>>>finish ahead at the end of a long match.
>>>
>>>Before a program could make an honest claim at being 2900, I think the team
>>>would have to scrape up some money and get Gary Kasparov to play a 40 game match
>>>with it. The terms would have to be steep to get the most out of Gary, such as
>>>is he loses he could only play checkers from now on, and if he wins he gets to
>>>have Pamela Anderson for a year plus about $20 million in spending money.
>>
>>
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>>Pamela Anderson!?...
>>
>>Is it supposed to be some kind of reward?! Yuk! I'd better suck silicon (mmh...
>>maybe that's what you meant?).
>>
>>Hint: happy new year to Neferteri Sheperd
>>(http://playmates.chrisos.com/Neferteri_Sheperd/Sea/).
>>
>>(...don't try this at home)
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe (3rd glass of Champagne, I know that's not an excuse...)
>
>going on my 5th beer, cheers!
Cheers Sally!
Christophe
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