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Subject: Re: Which program plays

Author: blass uri

Date: 15:49:44 09/11/98

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On September 11, 1998 at 18:07:03, Serge Desmarais wrote:

>On September 11, 1998 at 12:10:29, blass uri wrote:
>
>>
>>On September 11, 1998 at 09:03:30, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>>
>>>On September 11, 1998 at 03:02:18, blass uri wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>>Sometimes computers play stupid moves that no human in the level of at least
>>>>2000 elo could play.
>>>>I cannot say it about grandmasters
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>In the last Rubinstein memorial the following position occured after blacks
>>>move 36...Rb8.
>>>FEN:1r/4kp/4pn1p/1P3p1P/5P/1P2KPN/8/3R w
>>>White played Ke4?? and black answered Nd5??
>>you mean 37.Kd4
>>>These were stupid moves, but were it computer moves?
>>
>>No sometimes humans do mistake that no computer could do
>>I think that both sides were in time trouble
>>but this is rare even in time trouble.
>>In more than 99 out of 100 cases grandmasters do not do these mistakes.
>>
>>I define a program with a human style as a program that guess grandmaster's
>>moves better than other programs
>>In this position it is a bad idea to guess the mistakes in the game because the
>>probability of doing these mistkes is very low.
>>
>>Uri
>>
>[Snip Karpov's game]
>
>   I do not follow you well! A chess program that would guess a high percentage
>of Petrosian's moves would be qualified as having a more human style than
>others, according to your reasonning. But that same program gussing most of
>Petrosian's moves would never guess most of Tal's moves... Now, would that mean
>that Tal was LESS HUMAN THAN PETROSIAN??? You seem to view the "GM moves" as a
>whole, a block. But 2 different GMs could play very differently from a given
>position... But they are still "human players"...

I thought about the average but you are right because a program can guess one
player's move and if the style of the player is different from others it will
not be good in the everage.

Uri
>
>
>Serge Desmarais



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