Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 18:20:55 07/07/04
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On July 07, 2004 at 19:33:52, Albert Silver wrote: >On July 07, 2004 at 14:24:14, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>On July 07, 2004 at 12:09:14, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>On July 07, 2004 at 11:30:24, Fernando Villegas wrote: >>> >>>>It has been a surprise to analyze Junior-Diep game, specially when you have read >>>>here so many posts by Diepeveen talking of the huge knowledge capabilities of >>>>his program. Looking at the position before white rook taking "a" pawn it is not >>>>neccesary to be more than 2000 elo player to see the threats lurking in the >>>>position, the great activity, open or scarcely hidden, of black pieces, all of >>>>them aiming at the white king or near it. >>>>Oh well, said Diep, but a pawn is a pawn.... >>>>If there is a program that can talk of knowledge is or has been Junior. At least >>>>he really knows to attack. >>>>Anyway, I got fun. As a lover of dedicated units, I chose to take Diep endeavour >>>>in this game as a kind of homage to those old machines. >>>>Very poignant indeed. >>>>fernando >>> >>>You've heard of those nonsense posts on "what if a program like Junior were to >>>run on the Deep Blue hardware?". Well, this is a similar experiment with the >>>Chess Challenger software running on hardware that is thousands if not millions >>>of times faster. >>> >>>A lot of people don't realize the meaning of the DIEP acronym, mistakenly >>>thinking it has something to do with the author's name: Diminished Intellect >>>Experimental Program. >>> >> >>That is pretty harsh criticism from someone who's engine competes in Class D at >>WBEC ;) >> >>anthony > >You guys really need to learn to lighten up. It's not such harsh criticism as I >have yet to understand how anyone could possibly take any of it seriously. I'd >suggest some of the more vociferous posters take a couple of steps back to >regain some perspective. > > Albert This is not criticism, it is simply an insult. To be fair, Vincent does a great deal of this himself (especially about Crafty, which seems to be trashing his predictions so far) but two wrongs don't make a right. anthony
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