Author: blass uri
Date: 22:52:47 03/19/99
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On March 20, 1999 at 01:13:01, KarinsDad wrote: >On March 20, 1999 at 00:19:33, blass uri wrote: > >> >>On March 19, 1999 at 20:45:53, KarinsDad wrote: >> >> >>>This would seem to have been a major disadvantage to Nimzo in the tournaments >>>before the SSDF allowed programs to know who their opponents were (if there ever >>>was such a period of time). Although it is an advantage now, again, so what? The >>>programmers of Junior, Fritz, Rebel and others could have put such a feature in >>>if they deemed it necessary. >> >>Maybe part of them would do it if they knew that it is legal in the ssdf. >> >>The problem is that the rules of the ssdf were not clear about it and the >>assumption of part of the programmers was that it is illegal. >> >>This was at least the assumption of Amir Ban. >> >>Uri > >Uri, > >Not knowing the full background on this, I can only be confused. > >Does the SSDF really dictate which functionality can and cannot be placed into a >program? I know only that Amir Ban assumed that it is not legal to use knowledge about the opponent(otherwise he would change the contempt factor as a function of the opponent) The same for other programs like Genius3. Uri > >I read their FAQ file and this does not appear to be the case, other then >limiting the programs to "tournament" opening books and placing the program on >it's "ultimate" settings. > >Now if Junior has a contempt feature that can be set higher and the programmers >of Junior want that contempt to change settings based on who it is playing or >the ELO of it's opponent, then that would be fine as long as the program does it >dynamically. Junior does it only if you tell it to do it. It is not a problem for Amir Ban to define a rule about the contempt value as a function of the elo of the opponent (for example contempt=5.13-ssdf rating*0.002). Uri
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