chipschap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I tried again to play a game to start to triangulate on a rating for
> GitClub. Here's what happened. I thought I would try ChessMaster 10
> with its rated personalities (who knows how good the ratings are and
> under what conditions they were taken, but what the heck). I used a
> personality with an 1193 rating and set the game for 2/6 Fischer time,
> with CM as black, GC as white; GC at "easy" level (40 seconds per move
> in theory). Here is the game:
>
> White -- Black
> (easy) -- (CM 1193)
>
> 1. d2-d4{34} e7-e5{24}
> 2. d4-e5{28} Bf8-c5{18}
> 3. Nb1-c3{26} Ng8-f6{20}
> 4. Ng1-f3{74} Rh8-g8{14}
> 5. e5-f6{20} Qd8-f6{12}
> 6. Nc3-d5{32} Qf6-d8{14}
> 7. Bc1-f4{32} d7-d6{28}
> 8. Qd1-d3{36} c7-c6{12}
> 9. Qd3-h7{42} Ke8-f8{12}
> 10. Nd5-c3{22} Qd8-e7{18}
> 11. Qh7-g8{20}
>
> I never actually saw GC's 11th move; the board disappeared and GC
> claimed a win when it had in fact just thrown away its queen (I looked
> up the move in GC's move records afterwards). I guess GC thought this
> was checkmate even though the white queen is unprotected.
>
> Now, up to this point I was reasonably impressed. ChessMaster was
> doing its usual stupid thing of throwing away material to lower its
> rating, but GitClub was handily taking advantage of it (though when CM
> threw away a knight GC waited an extra move to pick it up; luckily CM
> left it hanging). Still, under these conditions thus far in the game
> it seemed like GC was on the way to victory.
>
> But with stupid bugs like claiming a checkmate in error, who has the
> patience to try to evaluate GC properly, with a long enough series of
> games under controlled conditions? I was about to do that but I was
> frustrated again.
>
> No doubt Sanny will fix this bug and proclaim the program better than
> ever and ready to trounce Rybka in the future, but I'm about ready to
> give it all up. After so many months the program ought to at least
> play by the rules. And it would be really nice to show the final
> position and not just delete the board and say "game over."
>
It seems very simple to me. If a program can not play by the rules, its
rating is zero.
--
Cordially,
Rev. J.D. Walker, MsD, U.C.
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