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Subject: Re: What I Register...

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 08:45:07 10/15/00

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On October 14, 2000 at 21:06:27, Will Singleton wrote:

>On October 14, 2000 at 17:09:19, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>What I register in the first place, dear Czub, is that, no matter what, you get
>>into it and find a reason to treat all of us here as near morons or something of
>>the sort. Sometimes we are bean counters, some times wee do not se certain
>>things you of course saw, some times we believe in statistics instead of
>>intuitive jumps from just one move.
>>Maybe you are right and this move show Gambit is really different, but maybe
>>only show that some extreme settings produces some different kind of moves in a
>>generally speaking "normal" proggram. BTW, I suppose that with belief you mean
>>"speculative" evaluation. Well, I think that in some sense any chess calculation
>>is, in a degree, an speculative evaluation. It is so as much you must stop
>>search lot before the game ends. Any calculation that does not exhaustive is
>>speculative. So, at the end, the real difference could be just different ways to
>>be speculative, different kind of guesses. The quiescent search is in its
>>enterity a kind of disguised guess. It was invented, I believe -sorry, I
>>speculate- by the Spracklen and implemented the first time for micros in sargon
>>II. And if it was not invented by them, someone else did in the same time, 25
>>years ago in any case. Nothing too new under the sun.
>>Cheers
>>Fernando
>
>I am somewhat discombobulated to discover that I agree with everything in the
>above message.  I don't know if this result is due to your evolving status as a
>computer-chess expert, or the Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin.
>
>Will

I did not know that we already had an history of sistematic disagreement, but if
this is not the case now, maybe is not just because I evolved, but maybe be you
did :-). Well, in any case, great. I like too that kind of beberage...
Fernando



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