Author: John Merlino
Date: 08:41:23 05/17/05
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On May 17, 2005 at 10:44:48, chandler yergin wrote: >On May 17, 2005 at 10:21:43, Christopher Conkie wrote: > >>Interesting, the return of the ol' toolkit. >> >>I would say above all that computer chess tournaments where the engines play >>without opening books are most important to me. I should like to see what the >>engine does when left to sink or swim by itself. >> >>Regards >> >>Christopher > >Excellent! This is a point I have trying to make with many Posts. > > Also,take away the Opening Books, EGTB's, and let the Program play against >Humans, under Tournament time controls, and see what the result is. This would be an interesting idea, however if you take away the opening books you take away any possibility of randomness by the engine (unless the engine had some randomness setting and the personality being used in the tournament was using it to some degree -- and this, of course, generally results in lower quality play). And if you take away randomness, it is very easy, given enough time, to find a way to beat ANY engine, because the engine will always reply the same way, given the same CPU and the same time control. Therefore, if such a match were to take place, it would be imperative that the human would have no time to prepare against the engine. And, IMHO, the top engines, crippled in this manner, would still be able to give a low-end GM a good fight. jm
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