Author: blass uri
Date: 16:17:59 09/27/99
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On September 27, 1999 at 17:55:37, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >no need to play more than 5 moves if one is as brilliant as you and can judge a >program from those few moves and from the evaluation changes. > >for all the rest of us (like me who only played against chess computers since >they were 6 years old but are only 19 now) we need lots and lots of games >because we can only judge programs by looking at the final _result_. I do not agree that you can judge programs only by looking at the final result. I can give you an example: Suppose 2 programs evaluates the position in a game as better for white and suddenly black finds a winning tactical line and black did not plan it because you can see by the main line of black that black expected the move of white and only in the last iteration found the winning move. You can learn that black was lucky. I do not agree with thorsten that you can decide by few games which program is better unless there is a big difference(Extreme example:If you see that one program do the worst move instead of the best move because of a bug then you can really learn it by watching one game) but I think that you can learn more from watching games than only from the result. Uri > >By the way: I think I'm gonna buy CSTal now, could be usefull for correspondence >chess. Any ideas about when it will have winboard support ? > >--Tec
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