Re: Go program strength

[Robert Jasiek <jasiek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kees van de Merwe wrote:
> 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.

Software may be in RAM, HD, or ROM, wherever it is - it remains
just software. Software may learn by hard-coding, by runtime
data, and due to human experiences, whichever methods are
chosen - it remains learning. There is only one restriction for
software: ASA a game has started, no human may give the software
additional advice because the human opponent does not then get
advice himself. [If some dubious rules allow a human to get
advice during a break, then and only then the same is allowed
for the program, of course.]

Just my EUR 0.06135502574355 (which is DM 0.12).
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robert jasiek