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Subject: Re: Strategy vs Tactics in Computer Programs

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 09:20:44 04/20/02

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On April 20, 2002 at 10:19:28, Mike Hood wrote:
> Of course, I don't mean to say that this method of playing is
>ineffective. It's been said that chess is 95% tactics and 5% stragegy.

I agree.

>Computer
>programs are brilliant tacticians, and so a strategy has to be very cleverly
>devised to outwit them. It takes someone of Smirin's level to devise such a
>winning strategy.

Smirin has not still won the match, just found a weak point in Shreddy, same
exact weakness found by Van Wely in Fritz... a coincidence ?

> Tactics aim at achieving a position,
> strategy aims at achieving a pattern.


Which is the difference between position and pattern ?
Anyway if you let the tactics run forever you get a perfect strategy plan :

tactics -> infinite = strategy.

w.b.r.
Otello



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