Author: blass uri
Date: 14:23:57 02/04/99
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On February 04, 1999 at 10:46:30, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >More speculation. Two years ago we had this giant discussion about DB having or >not having the same quality evaluation functions of the commercials. Then Bob >put Crafty as an example of what DB people were doing in this regard: Crafty and >then some. He also posted a 10-0 win from DB against top commercials. >Skepticism, if not downright disbelieve, was the normal reaction and from there >it came the 100:1 challenge from Rebel 8 and then Hiarcs 6. Crafty lost the >first game and it wasn’t better in the second, in spite of the odds. But today’s >Crafty is not that old Crafty, so imagine this 16.4 running on a 1000 times >faster machine, like DB did: who would doubt a 10-0 against the best >commercials? I would doubt 10-0 I think that you cannot be sure about 10-0 even if you played the same program against itself(1000 times faster) because the 1000 times faster can do a draw or even lose because of a poor opening choice or because of bad luck(It can calculate something that both sides believes that is winning and is realy losing) Uri
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