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

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 13:19:26 11/06/05

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On November 06, 2005 at 15:49:45, Günther Simon wrote:

>On November 06, 2005 at 09:39:43, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Is this a 'yes' or a 'no' to Uris question?
>
>Guenther

Yes, in the best of worlds a lot of humans could be included to give a "true"
rating comparison.

Bertil



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