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Subject: Re: Gulko's comments on the match

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 03:21:16 04/03/02

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On April 03, 2002 at 06:09:26, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 03, 2002 at 05:46:13, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On April 03, 2002 at 05:25:19, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>I suspect you are not really talking about static eval the way I do.
>>>>Did you run you program on a position and let it search only 1 node??
>>>
>>>I do not rememebr thew relevant position now but I remember that in at least one
>>>of my games I believed that  had an advantage when I had no advantage and the
>>>computer knew immediatly that I have no advantage(I could not tell it to search
>>>1 node but I could see that even at small depths it does not see an advantage
>>>for me.
>>
>>They extend pretty deeply even at small depths.
>>
>>>I doubt if the moves of Fritz are significant positional errors.
>>
>>Maybe not, but they do reveal that the positional knowledge of programs are
>>basicly infantile.
>>I do not think it is possible to be 2700 elo strong if you have such poor
>>judgement of the position, this is why GMs only use programs to assist the
>>tactical lines, they do not think much of them when it comes to positional
>>understanding.
>>
>>>>Fritz killed me later on the king side, I can't hold the tactics, the best I can
>>>>do is to get fritz to play 20 nonsense moves, but it always finds a tactical
>>>>shot.
>>>
>>>If it finds a tactical shot then it means that maybe the moves are not nonsense.
>>>There is a simple rule in chess that when your position is really bad you have
>>>no opportunity for a tactical shot.
>>
>>True.
>>Fritz position is not bad, but it takes a while for fritz to crack me open, GMs
>>would be much faster at that.
>>
>>>>
>>>>Of cause you can make it so, it is easy go give a higher score for positional
>>>>gain, but programs do not know when it is correct to sac, you said yourself you
>>>>disagreed with the program :)
>>>
>>>Humans also play sometimes wrong positional sacrifices.
>>>
>>>I gave the wrong move only as an example to prove that programs can sacrifice.
>>>
>>>Both humans and machines may be wrong or right in sacrificing but if I give
>>>cases of a right sacrifice you may claim that maybe the program saw everything
>>>in advance so it is not a sacrifice(something that is not always correct).
>>
>>Hehe, well maybe.
>>I have however never seen a program sacrifice a bishop or knight into the
>>opponents king position if it did not see the mate or material gain 10 moves
>>later.
>
>I guess that you did not see the games of chess system tal.
>
>Another point is that I also saw humans sacrifice a bishop or a knight into the
>opponents king position when the sacrifise was wrong and computers do not
>suggest to sacrifice from the first ply and you cannot ignore these cases when
>you compare between the static evaluation of humans and the static evaluation of
>computers.

The point is, that it is probably correct from a positional point of wiev, but
the tactics may make it wrong. The picture is reversed, humans make tactical
error but computers make positional errors.

I do not think programs has the postional knowledge of a 1400 player.

-S.

>Uri



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