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Subject: Re: Ooops

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 05:18:14 06/14/03

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On June 13, 2003 at 17:20:04, Helmut Conrady wrote:

>On June 13, 2003 at 14:41:04, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>
>>On June 13, 2003 at 12:03:58, Michael Vox wrote:
>>
>>GM Shipov's conclusion is 'that the programmers still have a lot
>>of work to do'. Actually the chance of getting such a position
>>in a real game is around 0,00
>
>I disagree. Look at the one with BPPP-B or BP-P for example.
>
>- even some of the positions cannot
>>be reached in a real game and are illegal- so I fail to see the
>>need to work on such positions...
>>
>
>IMO all positions are legal.

But that wasn't the point.

If a program is stupid enough to move all five pawn to the rook file, it doesn't
matter much if the score is wrong as well. If it would never get into the
position by itself, the score doesn't matter at all.

If any program promoted to 8 same color bishops, I would erase it immediately
even if it scored it as a draw!


Some of these "problems" are like asking a real estate broker to estimate the
value of a house with one bedroom and 8 (same color) bathrooms. The answer is
pretty uninteresting.


>
>Helmut



Bo Persson
bop2@telia.com



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