Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 10:31:00 11/09/00
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On November 09, 2000 at 13:08:32, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On November 09, 2000 at 06:27:46, Joe Besogn wrote: > >>I posit that the IDEA is revolutionary because it turns old paradigm assumptions >>on their head. It analyses failures of the old paradigm (discussed elsewhere as >>anomolies), and seeks to use these anomolies to find a new way which fixes them. >> >>I posit the IDEA is revolutionary because it is, or has been, strongly opposed. > >It hasn't been strongly opposed by everyone, and there have been some earlier >efforts to create a program that would intelligently sacrifice material. Anyone >who has even a vague idea how to play chess knows that when the read older chess >literature and find that people have the positional attributes constrained to >-0.99 .. +0.99, that's nonsense. > >MChess returns very large scores for positional attributes, and it has done this >since the mid-90's at least. The first MChess I had would lose a pawn and think >it was doing OK, although there were times when I disagreed. Some Novag Constellations did the same or more about 10 years ago. As far as I know, David Kittinger was the pioneer in this regard. Enrique >I believe there have been a lot of long-terms sacrifices in recent tournaments, >it doesn't seem uncommon to hear about one. > >My own program is not very good at speculative attacks, but that's because I >haven't done a good job of communicating my intent to the program, not because I >oppose the idea. > >bruce > >>>This is an evolution, >> >>Revolution. It fits the Kuhn theory, imo. >> >> >>> it's something for others to experiment with, and >>>nobody will have to rewrite their program to do it. >> >>True. Rewriting programs is not necessary. Rewriting part of the practitioners >>brain, is. >> >>To do it, you have to think different. The revolution is in your own head. Risky >>guesses instead of accuracy, seek chaos instead of seek quietness. Handle the >>chaos instead of pretending it doesn't exist. Chaos is good for you. >> >>Revolution in thought of programmer. Hence connected to politics (avoid, avoid, >>avoid). Hence connected to personality of programmer (avoid, avoid, avoid). >> >>QED.
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