Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:03:40 10/15/00
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On October 15, 2000 at 15:21:34, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On October 15, 2000 at 11:59:53, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Dear Thorsten: >>Let me clear a couple of things: >>a) I am very calm about this issue. I am not a man to become irated by these >>things. Not for almost anything in fact, except noise and bad music. > >me too. > >>b) I was just registering the fact that you, in the very title of the post, >>announced we were not seeing anything. > >right. not many posts about gambit-tiger winning french championship >like hell. >still not many posts register that gambit-tiger plays dutch championship >like hell. > > >>c) I do not say tiger or whatever program is like sargon. I was just giving an >>example of how old certain techniques are and how speculative they were and are. > >good. > >>I am sure that Tiger is beyond comparison in terms of sophistication. > >aha. > >>d) I do not proyect nothing. I have no bad feelings of any kind about you. I do >>not judge your person, just I make a comment about just a sentence. > >right. but you seem to project something that is not there. >i do not attack whoever. only say: hey folks - look ! > > >>e) I am not a beam counter. How could I be one if I scarcely understand what do >>you mean by that? I believe it is kind of derogatory terme invented by Chris W. >>or by you and maybe has an utility as a weapon, but not real value in serious >>discussion. > >words have meaning. bean-counters count too much. >they don't see chess as the target anymore, but POINTS. >but chess is about chess. and not about points. I do not agree that the program that you define as bean counters count too much. The opposite: they do not count enough positional advantage of king attack. GambitTiger is not a slow searcher. There is no big difference between the number of nps of GambitTiger and Crafty. Chris w believed that you need a slow searcher in order to have big king safety evaluation. Chris w believed that the programmer needs to be a strong player in order to teach programs about big king attack evaluations. GambitTiger only proves that Chris w was wrong. Uri
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