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Subject: Re: Mchess Pro 7.1

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 03:47:19 12/14/97

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>You could be right, I don't really know for sure.  Nahh, you're probably
>wrong.

:-)


>I definitely believe the neccessary data to measure chess strength
>exists within the moves themselves.

The moves are very nice, but correlating the TIME needed to find them,
the branching-sorting of the moves (is the key move sorted 3rd branch or
30th branch ?) , is the evaluation accurate, or does search LATER makes
it more precise, is the rest of the main-line ok ? etc. etc. etc.
Beside the move itself, there is SO MUCH to correlate that gives me
INSIGHT about the strength of the programs that I fail if I would only
have to replay the moves WITHOUT those life-correlating data.

>I'm much less certain how well
>PEOPLE can do this based on their own judgements.

Hm. Why ?

>
>In my experiences, humans are irrational creatures and are far too
>subject to their emotions and have strong biases that cloud their
>judgement.  `

Aha. Now I understand. You are a vulcan and you believe (like e.g. SAREK
believes) that emotions cloud their judgements.
Hm. I don't believe like SAREK or any vulcan.
Kirk always won against Spock in chess, although SPOCK tried not to have
emotions. :-)
My experience says that emotions and "clouds" that avoke biased
judgements are the most interesting feature of human-beeings. This fuzzy
feature is very difficult to react, even for vulcans or computers
(Data!).
The most interesting biased people are females ! I am happy to live in a
world where people are subjective and emotional and biased. I could not
exist in a world where girls are like vulcans.
I never found that YOU try to discipline yourself to be rational and
havong NO distrubing emotions. When I remember it right you were a very
nicely emotional guy !


> We do have great pattern recognition facilities which
>you have alluded to, but our judgement is pretty poor.
>

Hm. Really ?

>
>
>-- Don



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