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Subject: Re: New Rebel-Century4 style Machëide and its games from Knaak position

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:27:05 02/18/02

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On February 18, 2002 at 12:07:00, José Carlos wrote:

>On February 18, 2002 at 11:47:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 18, 2002 at 09:59:28, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>
>>>Using commercially rebel-century4, and a style that came to my mind when reading
>>>Dr.Emanuel Lasker, worldchess-champion, mathematician and philosoph in
>>>"Philosophy of the unattainable", Leipzig 1919.
>>>
>>>The position was initiated by thomas lagershausen in a german chess forum.
>>>White, knaak, sacced a piece, and the question was, if the white position is
>>>to win.
>>>
>>>As you can see the normal century4 is still too much "old paradigm", but the new
>>>style macheide.eng comes close to new paradigm?.
>>
>>How can simple "style" changes cause a program to go from "old paradigm"
>>to "new paradigm"?
>>
>>This definition of "new paradigm" is so badly flawed...
>
>  But what is the definition? Is it something like:
>  Old paradigm = non speculative eval
>  New paradigm = speculative eval ?

No... we've done been down that road.  You can find the discussion in the
archives.  By direct statement (and not mine, btw) "new paradigm is _not_
just some evaluation changes."

>
>  If that is the definition, it seems that a few changes in eval weights can do
>the trick... but then defining a paradigm switch due to a few eval weights
>changes sounds nonsense.
>  I'd like to know 'the definition'.


It is basically "the kind of chess playing I like" where "I like" is very
vague and non-specific.  :)




>
>  José C.



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