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Subject: Re: Is it better for a program to beat other programs or Human GM?

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 12:50:35 07/24/05

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On July 24, 2005 at 10:19:53, Roger D Davis wrote:

>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.

:-):-) Yeah i found it amazingly odd too.......

>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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