Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:22:33 11/30/99
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On November 30, 1999 at 13:05:35, Stephen Ham wrote: >On November 30, 1999 at 12:42:19, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>I would like to see a web page setup like we had for the KKUP matches. This is >>the sort of thing that really tickles my fancy. > >Dear Dann, > >Please forgive my ignorance, but please tell me more about the setup you liked >for the KRUP matches. Perhaps we can learn something from this and provide what >you and other viewers want. Since I'm ignorant of just about anything involving >computers, feel welcome to contact Franklin Campbell at his hosting web site >with your suggestions. Thanks for any input you can offer. For the KKUP and KKUP 2 matches, there was a web site put up. I believe it was at Gambit-Soft, but I suspect that ICD could also be cajoled into hosting it. In any case, as each new move was made, a java applet was updated which showed the new board positions. You could also scroll back and forth through the previous moves. Incredibly entertaining, and high quality chess [for the most part -- there were a few stinker moves but it was all computer verses computer matches] >Our intentions are to make these games as close to 100% pure human versus pure >machine as we can. Thus no human intervention is allowed for the machine. The >goal is to see what level of strength is seen from these chess engines when >playing correspondence chess against highly rated human opponents. In this way, >we hope to have some idea of what a very weak human with a very strong >computer/chess engine combination could hope to accomplish if he never >interfered with the machine. Once a performance "baseline" is established, the >hope then is to see what effect a human/machine team has against a strong >correspondence master. So far there has been speculation regarding the influence >of computer chess engines upon correspondence chess. In this very limited test, >we hope to provide some empirical data (yes it's only 4 games but it's a start) >to replace some speculation with facts. I just hope I don't embarrass myself and >the human race in this match! I love this sort of experiment. In fact, this sort of chess is my very favorite kind. I used to have my computer run all night and supply my move in the morning. Unfortunately, the machines and programs have gotten a lot better these days and now I get my rear kicked. ;-) Valvo did pretty well a while back IIRC. In any case, I am looking forward to the games with glowing enthusiasm.
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