Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 21:16:35 07/24/05
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On July 24, 2005 at 15:50:35, George Tsavdaris wrote: >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 Yeah, makes Frans look like a real deep thinker. I can't believe they posted that. Roger
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