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Subject: Re: Is it correct that the ssdf is against testing humans in the list?

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 06:39:43 11/06/05

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On November 06, 2005 at 00:44:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>There was a claim in another discussion that the ssdf is in principle against
>testing humans.
>
>The claim was not by ssdf tester and if it is correct I want to read it from
>ssdf testers.
>
>I always thought that the problem is that humans are not available for playing
>matches of 40 games against Fruit and Fritz and other programs and paying humans
>money and checking that the humans do not cheat is too expensive.
>
>I always thought that ssdf is going to include humans in the list in case that
>there is a sponsor to pay for that purpose.
>
>Uri

The idea has always been to compare programs against humans in tournaments.
Especially in the past days a good player could learn to play the same lines
over and over winning the same game again and again.

Bertil



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