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Subject: Re: F6 disaster vs. Van Wely "YIKES :-0"

Author: Marc Plum

Date: 18:05:17 05/19/00

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On May 19, 2000 at 18:50:59, Jerry Adams wrote:

(snippage)

>   So then are you saying a 1600 player should trust his own judgement over
>Fritz6??? If programs were that Bad, no way fritz could have took fifth place in
>the dutch championship, your statement seems ludicrous to me.

There is a difference between scoring points in competition, and determining the
"truth" of a position.  I think it's quite possible that a class B player may
understand some strategical/positional ideas better than a program.  In a head
to head contest, the B player (and stronger players as well) will lose almost
all the time anyway, because of tactical errors.  That doesn't mean, though,
that he should blindly trust the program's evaluation if there is no clear
tactical solution.  IMHO

Programs are still great analysis tools.  Just don't assume that they catch
everything.

Marc



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