Author: blass uri
Date: 20:31:23 05/07/00
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On May 07, 2000 at 16:41:17, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On May 07, 2000 at 14:46:27, Jerry Adams wrote: > >>Hi >> >> >> Am I just imagining this or is there a high number of draws between strong >>humans and computers? Computers are appearing to be the classic draw master, >>perhaps because they lack the creativity of the human player?? > >I can't comment on the relative percentage of draws, but computers are very good >at getting draws when they are losing, because they don't know they are losing. >As a consequence they will not roll over and die once they start to lose, they >will keep fighting until the game is over. Humans tend to collapse once they >start to lose, their human opponents expect this, and humans who expect the >computer to collapse once it starts to lose are in for a bad surprise. I do not collapse when I start to lose. There were cases when I drew or won bad positions. I do not think that there is a rule that humans tend to collapse once they start to lose. I remember one case when I drew a lost game that computer would not draw because it does not consider the possibility that the opponent will make a mistake. Sometimes the only hope to save the game(against humans) is not to play the objectively best move and computers do not know it. It is possible that computers are better defenders in some bad positions but I do not think the reason is that humans tend to collapse but that computers are better in finding moves in tactical situations when there is only one logical move. Uri
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