Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:51:31 07/12/00
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On July 12, 2000 at 18:26:23, Graham Laight wrote: >On July 12, 2000 at 10:13:50, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >>On July 12, 2000 at 09:16:19, Graham Laight wrote: >> >>>The GM commentators are not impressed with DJ's play in this blocked position. >> >>I agree with them. Junior's play in this game is terrible. >>Even a 1800 rated human player would play such a position better. >>c5-c4?? and Nxd2?? are all huge mistakes. >> >>It proves ove thing: More NPS, faster, more faster, an even >>smaller branche factor, better search techniques, NONE of >>these will help a computer program to play these positions >>better! > >This makes a lot of sense. But in '97, DB was playing an even better player - >one Gary Kasparov. > >He conspicuously failed to pummel DB like a scrap yard crusher boxing up a car. >The one game he won (game 1) was done with considerable finesse (IMO), wheras >today, it was just "block the centre and go for the king" - simple enough for >even me to understand! > >Some possible explanations: The main explanation is _evaluation_. As I have said many times, repeating what Hsu has said even more often, DB was not only about going fast. It was about going fast with a good evaluation. Their king safety was quite good. Good enough that these kinds of things are _very_ rare, while with most current programs, this happens regularly on ICC. > >* Gary was off form > >* DB evaluates positions better than DJ > >* Having greater processor power (and greater NPS (nodes per second)) does, >somehow, confer an ability to play this type of position better > >I'd love to see people's thoughts on this. > >-g > >>>Looks like DJ will need a mistake from Kramnik now. >> >>Looking after the position after 19 moves: Black is busted. >>Game over.... >> >>Jeroen
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