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

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 18:16:12 12/28/05

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On December 28, 2005 at 17:36:08, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>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 :)

You are experiencing the same frustration you saw from me a few weeks ago when
you had "jumped" on a few postings of some www.playchess.com HIARCS losses as
well as the 9 round CCT Blitz event.  :)

-elc.



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