Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 07:19:53 07/24/05
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On July 24, 2005 at 06:41:58, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On July 24, 2005 at 06:15:54, George Tsavdaris wrote: > > > >FF: We went for a long walk and I asked him how much time he spent tuning his >programs to play against other programs. He said 60-80% of his development time. >Then I asked him how much we, ChessBase, profited from this time. He said, well, >we beat most of the other programs. Finally, I asked what would happen if we >spent all that time teaching it how to play against human beings. Frans thought >for a minute and said, “I think we should be doing that.” > >http://www.chesscafe.com/mig/mig.htm >_______________________________________________________________________________ Kind of amazing that it only took Frans about a minute to change his entire strategy for the development of Fritz once the right question was posed to him. Really too bad the interview doesn't share the reasoning behind his answer. I guess in those 60 seconds he had some kind of epiphany about the direction of Fritz development based simply on a question about Chessbase profit. Roger
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