Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 01:57:42 03/10/00
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On March 09, 2000 at 20:58:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 09, 2000 at 16:58:07, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > >>[....]Three Studies >>Eleven studies had long since been prepared for testing >>the program---several years earlier I had written in an >>introduction to a collection of studies by G.Nadareishvili >>that it was with studies that one should begin experiments. >>My reasoning was simple---in studies there is forcing tactical >>play,positionnal evaluation is not needed,and since positional >>"understanding" was to be the last thing to be put into the program, >>one should therefore begin with studies... >>We began with a famous study by Réti. >>[D]7K/8/k1P5/7p/8/8/8/8 w - - >> White to play and draw >>What could be simpler,and at the same time cleverer than this >>composition?[....] >>And so,during December 1976 to January 1977,"Pioneer" solved >>Réti´s study.We thought that it would all be very simple,but >>it proved to be highly complicated.Without any positional >>evaluation,and without the attachment of the endgame library, >>the tree "disintegrated".The computer had little other work, >>but hours went by,and still no result.It became clear that >>"Pioneer" needed help! >>We took the rule of the square,programmed it in three modifications, >>put it into the library,and at each node of the tree "Pioneer" >>received from the library the necessary information.The effect >>was staggering:the study was solved within 70 minutes,and in the >>search tree there were only 54 moves.This small "human" tree was >>first obtained on 28th January 1977---without doubt a significant >>date in cybernetics.[...] >>Source:"Selected Games 1967-1970",M.M.Botvinnik,Pergamon Press,1981, >>pages 299 and 300 >>So it seems that,contrary to widespread belief,Botvinnik thought his >>computer-chess work to be very important. JAFM > > >He thought it very important... most of the rest of us didn't... as it >seems that most of the results were faked... What do base your conclusion that the relults where faked on? Torstein
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