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Subject: Re: Comp vs Comp -- Comp vs Humans... I'm Puzzled (as usual)...

Author: Mark Young

Date: 03:30:32 04/09/99

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On April 08, 1999 at 12:44:50, Steven Schwartz wrote:

>I know many of us believe that certain chess programs
>perform better against humans than they do against
>computers (and vice versa), but does anyone have any
>actual objective evidence to this effect?
>- Steve (ICD/Your Move)

At one time I was firmly in the camp that chess is chess, but as I have tested
programs more against humans. It is much harder to deny that some programs play
much better against humans then they do against other chess programs and vice
versa.

I will give one examples for each case, much better against humans, and much
better against computers and see what others think.

Much better at playing computers then humans.

Junior 4.6

Much better at playing humans then computers.

Crafty

I found that each one of the example programs played +100 rating points better
when playing against computers for Junior 4.6, and humans for Crafty.




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