Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 22:50:12 07/22/04
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On July 22, 2004 at 15:27:39, George Sobala wrote: > > >We clearly differ in our mental image of what constitutes a "computer chess >program": Not exactly. > >- your mental image includes a team of programmer and book-author standing >behind the machine and tweaking it for the particular opposition. This is when you get the most of that program; so considering a "different book", a faster hardware and selected openings on the opponents one can get a player which can be even more that 150 points stronger than the commercial version. This is similar to all programs, not only Shredder. > >- my mental image is a computer program, straight out of the box and "flying >solo", ready to face anyone. Well, that is still the same program, but with "commercial limitations". To me it is like to compare Schumi Ferrari F1 car with other Ferrari cars. They are not exactly the same, but they all are Ferrari. Still those Ferrari are the closer cars one can get as we cannot buy Schumi F1 car. So, if we compare Kasparov, we need to compare the stronger version as that one would be facing him and that one is the arrow version. To compare the commercial version operated by anyone and letting the program play alone using something penalized (I mean playing lines/moves known as people can check/test at home) is not fair to me. Still I understant this is all the owners can do. I am not criticizing this, but want to remember that there is available a stronger version, so the gap, if any, is lower. Sandro
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