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Subject: Re: Computers are stronger at defense than attack! Humans-not.

Author: Eran

Date: 08:31:41 07/18/00

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On July 18, 2000 at 10:50:23, stuart taylor wrote:

>On July 18, 2000 at 09:52:34, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>On July 18, 2000 at 01:49:26, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>On July 17, 2000 at 22:12:39, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>><snipped>
>>>>Computers spend much longer on a position when their evelution goes down as they go deeper.
>>>
>>>humans also spend more time when there are in trouble
>>>
>>><snipped>
>>>>That's why they make boring games. They defend  against the opponents
>>>>profoundest attacks, and don't bother making very profound attacks themselves,
>>>>as once they find a reasonable move, they don't look further.
>>>>  They will never apply the dictum, "if you see a good move, don't play it, but
>>>>look for something better".
>>>
>>>This is wrong.
>>>computers always look for the best move.
>>>
>>><snipped>
>>>>  Human are the opposite. They play to win, due to their very nature. They
>>>>cannot spend their entire energy just on defence, and to avoid defeat.
>>>
>>>They can and khalifman is not the only player who did it succesfully against
>>>Deep Junior to get a draw.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Yes, Bareev was amazing. I am still confused as to why Huebner resigned when he
>>had excellent drawing chances, considering the way other humans were able to
>>draw when more than a pawn down.
>>
>>James
>
>Humans do the best they can with defence, and the same goes for attack.
>Computers only do the very best they possibly can, when it comes to defence.
>  Also, defence is more tactical than attack-as we are speaking about the
>excecution stages, whereas attack starts earlier. Pure tactics = defence,
>favours computers anyway.

I think Rebel Century is the best program with defence.

Eran




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