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Subject: Good to know. But.......

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 07:50:48 02/27/06

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On February 27, 2006 at 08:52:52, Steve Lim wrote:

Forfeits are not one iota of being representative of its chess. Bugs, are bugs.
There's nothing you can do about bugs which affect its playing level or verdict
in a game. But anything problematic to do with the competing protocol, does not
indicate it's true level of chess.
At worsed, it should be clearly pointed out which rounds were as good as not
played by which engines, so it is clear for all to see.
With humans it is slightly different, if not too much.
More is expected of humans.
If a human did not do his daily physical workout, that could also cause him to
not feel good and lose a game, or even if he did not manage to eat breakfast
that morning. But we say that it's HIS problem.
But a machine is helpless regarding many of these things, and if you mix in
human weaknesses (with computer games), then you are interfering with computer
chess.
S.Taylor

>Hi all,
>
>I wonder if someone would be so kind to list out the few forfeits that programs
>suffered during this tournament.
>
>I believe fruit and thinker suffered some. Anyone know how many games for each
>and if there are others?
>
>many thanks,
>Steve.



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