Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:11:53 06/15/99
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On June 16, 1999 at 00:06:14, Micheal Cummings wrote: >After seeing the current results, and when comparing them to say the SSDF. Can >someone tell me other than getting a group of guys together and playing chess >with computers, what really the winner of this tourny will get out of it other >than a title. > >Nothing against Shredder for example, (I have Shredder2), but if it wins, I >would not think that it is better than the rest and would feel a little let down >if it did win, cause really I do not think it deserves to be caused world >champion. > >Just my opinion, what do other thinks about this. I am not picking on any one >program, as it is early, and I have nothing against the programs or people. But >with so few games I wonder what really the point of playing is, apart from fun. >and to let the people with multi processor compute come out and have some fun. In reality, it's strictly bragging rights. For the next 3 years, "I'm the roughest, toughest, baddest, best computer chess game winner on the planet! I'm world champion!!" It's also great for advertizing! For 3 years, they get to shout that their program is the strongest in the world. Of course, as has been pointed out, there is a large probability that the best program won't really win. But then, the same is true for the superbowl, and yet we watch it anyway. And nobody gets their bun in a knott when Denver calls themselves "World Champion" because, after all, they have demonstrated some reasonable stake to the claim. I think it is a testbed for new ideas also. How often do you see a program like Cilkchess go against Junior? So we can test hardware/software combinations and gague how strong/weak our new ideas make our programs turn out to be.
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