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Subject: Re: MChessPro v. 8 is a damn strong program

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 19:31:18 12/08/99

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On December 08, 1999 at 22:29:42, Lonnie Cook wrote:

>On December 08, 1999 at 22:22:00, Manuel Leone wrote:
>
>>> learning and book tuning, everyone does it!
>>
>>Do you have any evidence for this?
>
>Evidence! heehee. Yeah, I got it right here. I don't have it so I guess it
>doesn' t happen then, yeah right. Someone sees a certain line and every program
>plays one another you mean to tell me in this beautiful, paradisic world of
>honest , loving people no one is going to exploit it. of course they will but
>they will come out and admit it.

What m saying is my evidence is the tendency toward man to do something
dishonest or a little sneaky to get an edge. They WILL do it to some degree or
another
>
>The learning function is
>>certainly a useful feature, but developing a "killer book"
>>specifically to beat one or two programs in order to move up
>>on the SSDF rating list, is not the way chess programs should be
>>written. The author of Hiarcs, for example, stated that his
>>programs don't rely on such methods to get a high rating; they
>>depend on chess strength alone.



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