Author: Thom Perry
Date: 09:42:08 01/07/99
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On January 07, 1999 at 09:17:32, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Enrique: >Sorry my english, if I use spanish they will say we are conspiring :-)... Now to >the point: it seems that the long awaited G6 is a total disappointment. Not good >results against other top programs. Are we looking the sad, final product of a >chess programming mind of first class? Your impression? >Else: Sometime I asked an old good chess programmer of the 80's about how much >time a scientist or technician keeps producing good ideas and he said "for >ever". Now I doubt. It seems that in the sciences or associated fields you are >limited to a cluster of original ideas you have very early and the rest of your >life is the development of them, until exhaustion of potential developments is >reached. Could be the case or Lang? >Fernando I think too much emphasis is placed on the ratings. When I look at the tournament list, I see 10 great chess programs. Yeah, if I were a Kasparov, I might be concerned about needing to squeeze a few extra ELO out of a chess program to improve my game. You say that G6's results are disappointing? It's still scoring about 40% against all of the other top programs. Gee, I couldn't score 4%, 0.4%, or even probably 0.04% playing those programs set to full strength at 40/40. I'm a MCP fan. I would have liked to have seen MCP8 do better in the latest SSDF rating list, but I can't say that I'm bothered by what some people perceive to be disappointing results for MCP8. It still plays a terrific game, still has exactly the features I want in a chess program...hey, it's STILL my favorite chess program. I find it hard to believe that anyone could be disappointed by any of the programs on this tournament list because of a rating issue.
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