RE: Go program strength

["Kees van de Merwe" <kees@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Elmer Elevator
> Sent: woensdag 10 februari 1999 18:41
> To: computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Go program strength
>
> 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.
>
What I remember is that Kasparov complained that the programmer's changed
the algorithms of Deep Blue in order to change the playing style of Deep
Blue itself. This is completely different way of upgrading the strength of
your program, than the "tweaking" that is discussed in this mailinglist. But
changing the playing style is a effective method, because now the human
can't use his/her knowledge of the program to exploit its weakenesses. I
agree with Kasparov that this is unfair, because this is something a human
will never do, simply because he can't.

just my $0.02

Kees van de Merwe