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Subject: Re: It's OK for the author to get excited about a small test set

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 14:36:08 12/28/05

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On December 28, 2005 at 15:13:06, Dann Corbit wrote:

>After all, Rybka is probably the strongest single CPU chess engine in the world
>(that we know of and that is available to us).
>
>To beat it even in a fluke game is pretty amazing.
>
>So if after the tiniest possible non-zero sample (read 'one') of games promising
>results are shown (e.g. "I drew Rybka!" or even "I beat Rybka!"), it is possible
>and permissible for the program author to sing songs, compose poetry, and dance
>a jig [even simultaneously].
>
>IMO-YMMV.

Sure i have no problem with that, i would just like to see more games and then
have the author point out the ones he thought was representable, sorry if i was
coming off a bit harsh, but i am tired of the lack of data that makes people
jump :)



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