Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:08:16 11/26/97
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On November 26, 1997 at 08:28:51, Amir Ban wrote: >On November 25, 1997 at 12:28:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 25, 1997 at 04:00:43, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >> > >>However, none of this is a surprise. You will find the same sort of >>good/bad >>luck in games at Paris, Jakarta, Aegon events, etc. There's a lot of >>"luck" >>involved, although better programs generally have better "luck".. :) > > >Is it considered luck when your opponents make mistakes ? They usually >play perfect chess, don't they ? > >Amir only when they play blunders that every program we can try instantly rejects as losing. IE in 1983, when Cray Blitz won the WCCC, Shach played a move that just instantly lost the house and everyone in it. Had to do with a pin, and they selectively discarded the move and got rolled up. As I've said, luck is always "around" these events, although it is generally not selective as to whom it visits...
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