Author: KarinsDad
Date: 14:36:44 06/17/99
Go up one level in this thread
On June 17, 1999 at 16:08:34, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Dear KarinsDad, > >If you have seen the sprint races among humans you will notice that the >difference between first and fourth place may be only four or five feet. You >know that all of the athletes are "about the same" and yet the "winner" is just >a "little bit better". So it is with computer chess and drag racing. Yup. > > >I rest my case. You rest your case? You have no case. In the current SSDF standings, Fritz 5.32 has a 22-18 lead over Hirarcs 7.0 on the same system with the same size hash tables. To argue that Hirarcs will definitely beat Fritz is not that sure of a prediction. That's why they play the games. I have no clue where some people come up with their theories. :) KarinsDad :) > > >Tim Frohlick > > >PS Evolution works like this with "adaptions" that make the populations just a >"little bit better" at surviving a particular environmental stress. >Eventually, you have gotten from an ape-like hominid to our chess-programming >primadonas of today. So don't tell us that little advantages are not important. >How did we get from "Applied Concepts" Boris the talking chess computer to >Hiarcs?
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.