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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