On 07/22/2010 03:59 PM, Raymond Wold wrote:
Personally, I would not put much consideration into a result that occured without he human player getting to play a lot of games against the program (the same version he will play the final matches against) in advance, where he can find its weaknesses.
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10 years ago the idea that a computer program would win this bet, even without allowing any kind of sparring, would be laughable. I think a win by the computer here, without sparring, is still a strong result and one I would find more interesting, from a spectator point of view, than allowing John to probe the program for weaknesses in advance.
Certainly there are many Zen games on KGS available for study if that's who he ends up playing, so he wouldn't be going into this stone cold. Also, in terms of style, the monte carlo programs play similarly, so there's plenty of opportunity to practice against Fuego or Many Faces.
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