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Subject: Re: Interesting Shredder 5 news!

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 10:59:16 10/30/00

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On October 30, 2000 at 13:44:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 30, 2000 at 13:09:23, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On October 29, 2000 at 10:02:24, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On October 29, 2000 at 08:36:07, pete wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 28, 2000 at 20:15:02, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>I do not believe that it is only low branching factor.
>>>>>
>>>>>Genius has other problems.
>>>>>
>>>>>1)It does less extensions than other programs and cannot extend more than 12
>>>>>plies.
>>>>>
>>>>>It canot see lines of more than 32 plies.
>>>>>
>>>>>2)There are positions that it does not understand when other programs
>>>>>understand.
>>>>>
>>>>>Other programs worked many years about improving their evaluation when lang did
>>>>>not do it and it is natural that other programs got better evaluation function
>>>>>in part of the positions.
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri
>>>>
>>>>I tend to disagree , at least I suspect your point of view is very hard to prove
>>>>.
>>>>
>>>>It does sound very logical to assume years of work on evaluation has payed off
>>>>but it is very rare to see Genius judging positions in a ridiculous way .
>>>
>>>I expect you to see cases when Genius evaluates positions wrong if you do more
>>>games.
>>>
>>>I saw cases when Genius did not evaluate correctly king attack.
>>>It falled into a king attack against chess system tal many years ago because of
>>>wrong evaluation and I expect it also to fall into king attacks against
>>>gambittiger.
>>>
>>>It did not happen in the 3 games that you posted but it does not say that it is
>>>not going to happen.
>>>
>>>There are cases when Genius3's evaluation is superior relative to Gambit but I
>>>believe that there are also cases when it is the opposite.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Hello Uri,
>>I may be wrong but I think you cannot rely on Gambit's score for positions as
>>they are kind of artificial.  Similiar in my opinion to MChess pro.  Sometimes
>>the scores are elevated to force the attack when it is speculation.  Only my
>>opinion though.
>>Jim
>
>You cannot trust also the scores of other programs because they are not
>speculative and sometimes can evaluate 0.00 without seeing that one side has a
>winning attack.
>
>Uri

Hello Uri,
Well probably there is no program which gives an accurate evaluation of every
position.  What I mean is that most programs give an "honest" evaluation of the
position within their own limitations.  Gambit I believe is one that gives an
untrue score when trying to force an attack and therefore should not be relied
on for real evaluation to determine who is winning and by how much.  Again it's
only my opinion.
Jim



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