Author: Paul Richards
Date: 10:18:23 07/02/99
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On July 02, 1999 at 12:48:37, KarinsDad wrote: >So, people come up with the idea of "tests" such as yours and make the >implication that programs play better chess. I understand what you're saying, and it's not easy to draw the line and say what's fair and what isn't. But playing things that you wouldn't play against a human is an admission that you don't want to face the computer's strengths. That's certainly fair as far as playing goes, but if you want to claim that you are totally superior then that shouldn't be necessary. The strength of computers is difficult to classify because of the fact that some positions might be played like a weak player and others like a super-GM, which doesn't happen with humans. However I don't think that a GM's ability to exploit such weaknesses is always due to his chess strength, a good part of it is a freebie by virtue of simply being human instead of an inanimate object.
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