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Subject: Re: So far all that we have seen is Draw matches against the Champs

Author: Stephen Ham

Date: 07:54:12 04/16/04

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On April 16, 2004 at 09:00:36, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>First it was Deep Fritz against Kramnik then Deep Junior versus Kasparov,
>nothing but to boring draw matches. It is about time for us to see the strongest
>chess program Shredder 8 accomplishing what Deep Blue did back in 1997 against
>Kasparov.
>
>Jorge

Jorge,

I think that you're forgetting that the strongest engine in engine versus engine
contests (Shredder 8) isn't, as a consequence, the strongest versus humans.
That's why Rebel probably has the best record against humans of any engine to
date. I've read that Crafty scores well against us too.

There's many reasons for this. For example, in engine versus engine contests, it
seems that search speed is the most important element. But this is far less
important against humans, since even the slowest of the top 50-engines can
compute far faster than any human. So increasing dominance in area where engines
are already nearly totally dominant, really adds minimal value.

So if I had to bet money on which engine would most likley defeat humans, my
money is on Rebel.

Stephen



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