Re: Strong players only?

[Jeremy Thorpe <jthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Nick Wedd wrote:

> yuefang <yuefang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> 
> >BTW, the Ing cup is the competition between computers, is it sure that the
> >champion is also the one that can play best with human?
> 
> In my opinion, no.  The ability to beat an intelligent human while
> receiving nine stones is different from the ability to beat another AI
> in an even game.  

this is a bad comparison.  the ability to play 10k* at even game is also
different from ability to play 1k* with a handicap.

more importantly, i think that in general, the computer strength scale
will usually fit nicely into the human strength scale, even if
theoretically, it might not.

> 
> Nick
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> Nick Wedd    nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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