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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