Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:42:10 04/03/02
Go up one level in this thread
On April 03, 2002 at 09:22:25, Sune Fischer wrote: >On April 03, 2002 at 08:41:22, Uri Blass wrote: > >>>I do not think programs has the postional knowledge of a 1400 player. > >Then you will be so good as to show, e.g. in Crafty, where there are evaluation >stuff that could prevent the a4 move :) >I see nothing in Crafty, which is know to have a lot of eval, that players above >1400-1600 doesn't know, it is basic stuff of passed pawns, connected pawns, >material development etc.. beginner level stuff. The main point is that 1400-1600 may "know" wrong things about evaluating positions and I think that not knowing these wrong things is the main positional advantage of Crafty relative to 1400-1600 players. A weak human may also forget about a weak pawn in the evaluation of the position inspite of the fact that he knows in theory that weak pawns are bad. Something like this cannot happen to a computer. <snipped> >Why would he mostly win against stronger players if the sacrifices are wrong? It may be a win in most cases if the 1500 opponents blunder when they have to defend the position. a weak human may learn from his experience wrong things because his sacrifices may practically work when they are objectively mistakes in most of the cases. Uri
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.