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Subject: Re: Gulko's comments on the match

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 07:45:49 04/03/02

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On April 03, 2002 at 10:14:33, Uri Blass wrote:


>>You can say that, but then again the evaluation scores of crafty will also
>>sometimes be wrong because the position is an exception from the general rules
>>(a4 again :).
>>The human can much more easily distinguish between the minor changes in the
>>position that can change something from good to bad, the program just mindlessly
>>gives a score for a rook in an open file, even if the file is completely
>>irrelevant.
>
>And a human may calculate and when he he needs to evaluate if to go to the
>position he may not pay attention to the fact that there is an open file.
>
>I know that there were cases when I calculated some line but did not evaluated
>the final position correctly because I did not pay attention to some factor in
>the position.

Ok, aparently it is not possible to seperate the concepts of a static eval()
from a tactical search in this discussion, so I will not hassle you any more ;)

>I said in previous post that the player is better than 1400.

Sorry, missed that, but I still disagree. Chess is about playing against your
opponent, and if you know you are stronger you can be more agressive.
This is not to say he would play the same line against stronger opponents.
And for sure against computers you need a third style of play to win.

>Uri

-S.



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