Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 04:12:35 06/12/05
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On June 11, 2005 at 15:51:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Actually the rating of Chess 4.x ought to be reasonable, because it was _not_ >based on playing other programs. It was a pure USCF rating earned by playing in >tournament games, just like we did with Cray Blitz, and like Hsu, et al did with >Deep Thought and Berliner with HiTech. This is wrong science applied. 1. the expression "pure USCF" is misleading because it's about the performance of an alien among human chessplayers; aliens dont have "pure" USCF ratings and this is also why machines were banned from such tournament play 2. the fault is in the assumption that playing against a machine is the same in terms of chess as if you would play a human player - which is apparently not so 3. the game of chess played by human chessplayers is based on experience of human chess; a good chessplayer can play against everything a human could offer; machine chess is something different and without experience it's beyond any rating attempts 4. if you play machines you must use other experiences; you should play against the machine, and not against the chess as if played by a human [The same fault is in the statistic if seldomly a strong woman player appears in tournaments; we all know about the sub-conscious of male chessplayers; now playing a woman is a differet experience; this is also why such a strong female player like Judith Polgar for example has a highly exaggerated score, simply because males didn't play really dirty on her, which would be judged as unfair sports BTW; to get the difference just take the famous Kasparov vs DB2m we already discussed so oftenly; Kasparov was not prepared to meet the team playing dirty; say what you want about contracts, the dirtyness is lying in some trivial details, you know well from your own life experience; even we two are a good example for the existence of such existent details: we can talk in a friendly manner like this but let us begin a debate about death verdicts and such some, we could quickly end in some virtual verbal massacre - dont you think so? BTW best regards to you from Germany]
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