Re: Go program strength

[Ray Easton <ray.easton@xxxxxxx>]

Elmer Elevator wrote:

> Computer-vs.-human chess illuminates this problem very well. After Deep Blue
> defeated Gary Kasparov, Kasparov publicly and specifically accused Deep Blue's
> programmers of having "tweaked" the program to play against his personal style.
> Needless to say, he ladened this with a subtext that for the Deep Blue team to
> have done so (assuming they did) was somehow unethical or unfair.

Perhaps I'm recollecting wrong, but I thought Kasparov's complaint was based on the
fact that the Deep Blue programmers would not provide examples of Deep Blue's play --
so that Deep Blue gets to tweak, but he does not.

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ray

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