Author: stuart taylor
Date: 03:00:19 03/21/04
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On March 21, 2004 at 01:49:48, Johan de Koning wrote: >On March 20, 2004 at 20:37:09, stuart taylor wrote: > >>And even if without further improvements in playing strength (but atleast the >>best setting should be the default settings etc. and it should stay ATLEAST as >>strong as it is now, and not do things which risk it getting weaker), can there >>be OTHER improvements of things which I have not yet seen, like a very advanced >>kind of chatter, which comments intelligently on the position, as well as a >>choice of different chatters e.g. 1).highly intelligent 2).humorous 3).humorous >>as well as completely clean! 4).Different combinations of the above. 5) >>encouraging etc. > >I think you'll find 1)...5) right here in this forum. :-) I'm talking about the program making comments during the game. I think that is something which needs to be perfected, but the only problem is that not enough people seem to ask for it. I personally would pay a very high price for a program that does it well. S.Taylor > >>Also, a finely tuned estimation of playing strength according to your games, but >>not based only on percentage of won, lost, drawn etc. > >That's tough. >As far as *playing* strength goes we don't have anything better than >Elo's statistical model. Insight, fighting spirit, distractions, and >not the least physical fitness, are all thrown at one heap. But then >again, that *is* what defines playing strength in the real world. > >... Johan
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