Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:33:06 10/03/97
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On October 03, 1997 at 14:25:14, Chris Whittington wrote: >Was the 'sniff' word-concept a Bruce invention ? > >Because, if so, its such a neat idea, that we owe him at least some wine >in paris for inventing it. Ok, I'll claim to have invented this :-) Finally I discover somthing new. >Incedentally, this idea of sniffing, I understand it because I see it, >but I wonder if it isn't more of a fast-eval-searcher concept. liek my >program tends not to sniff things, but to either find them of not. I >guess that since fast evals are getting many of their positional >concepts from the search, you'ld expect to see a gradual 'sniffing' as >the plies deepen; while a knowledge prg would just tend to grab it on >finding it .... ? Maybe. I use the term to refer to cases where you find the answer to a tactical test for positional reasons, which could also be referred to as "tactical instinct" or perhaps, uncharitably, "luck", but perhaps you could also sniff a great positional move the same way. A sniff is when you find a Bxh2+ sacrifice but your score is +0.04. bruce
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