Author: blass uri
Date: 13:29:29 11/02/99
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On November 02, 1999 at 14:30:29, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On November 02, 1999 at 12:58:11, blass uri wrote: > >>1)I do not think that if you miss wins you are unlucky. > >As I said, this is a matter of taste. If you can mate Kasparov in one move >but lose on time, you bet you would say you are unlucky. Also if you miss >the mate and lose in the end. > >>Suppose program A is very good at the opening but not good at endgames. >> >>In this case program A is going to miss many wins but I do not think that >>program A is unlucky(it simply does not understand endgames). > >No, in this case it's not. But we know Tiger's strength and at least I FEEL >that it is unlucky. We just differ from opinion. I think luck is always >subjective, see my example from Bayern - Manchester. > >>I think that a program is unlucky if it outsearched the opponent only to get a >>bad position that both programs understood that it is bad too late. > >Why call this luck then? It should recognize that the position is bad..... Usually when both sides evaluate a position as advantage for white then it is advantage for white. If white outsearch the opponent and got a position that both programs evaluated as good for white but the position was really bad for white then white was unlucky because white had the same positional understanding as black and was better in tactics and lost inspite of it. Uri
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