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Subject: Re: chess gods smiling on Cilkchess

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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