Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:54:39 02/08/00
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On February 08, 2000 at 17:38:24, Colin Frayn wrote: >On February 08, 2000 at 16:33:52, Michael de la Maza wrote: > >>Earlier today I recorded a 20-25 minute interview with Professor Robert Hyatt. >>You can listen to the interview by: ><snip> > >Just listened to it - very interesting. > >Does anyone seriously believe what he said about computers not playing better >with increased ply, or at least asymptotically slowing down? I have 600 games >against Crafty which prove the opposite. I didn't say that. I said "there is plenty of evidence that says that an additional ply is _always_ good." Either you misunderstood, or I did a horrible job of answering that question. I will try to listen to it tonite after class. But hopefully _everyone_ knows what I think about one more ply. IE Crafty goes deep... > >I never thought about that connected passed pawns thing either. Damn that's >obvious. Takes a GM to point out the obvious sometimes. I knew about it as I play that way. But I never thought about it from a computer evaluation point of view until Roman pointed out that I had lost three games out of 10 the same way vs a GM on ICC. A critical oversight. > >Thanks for the advice, Prof. Hyatt. That world title's mine next time :) >*grin* > >Cheers, >Colin Exactly how are you going to arrange for that "good luck" factor you need so badly? :)
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