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Subject: Re: Ah, the "find this winning move syndrome"

Author: martin fierz

Date: 08:50:20 11/29/04

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On November 29, 2004 at 08:16:35, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>You know, I've seen enough test positions that if someone shows me one I can do
>just about the same thing.  If someone shows me a position and says "find the
>winning move", all I have to do is look at reasonable checks, captures, and
>moves to threatened squares :)  But in a real game, when you don't know if there
>is a winning move, things are a lot harder.

right. what daniel really should have said is that the correct move was his
candidate move instantly. but to really calculate the lines, you need some time
as a human...

cheers
  martin

>
>This just gave me an idea.  I should have a "test suite" mode, where it only
>looks at idiot moves in the root position :)
>
>anthony



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