Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:52:40 11/27/00
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On November 27, 2000 at 20:07:36, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On November 27, 2000 at 19:14:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>This looks like a case of "right move" but "wrong reason". Which is the thing >>the Nolot test is supposed to detect... > >I was focusing on the text by JR :o): > >"DT-2 agreed with Kasparov's analysis after going down the line given in >Informant, but could not find the move on its own in one hour time. When >letting it run overnight, it produced Nxh6 after 8 hours (but would play it with >a 6 hours/move time control; that is, it got first indication that the >combination might work after about 6 hours), with the variation 1. Nxh6! c3 2. >Nf5 cxb2 3. Qg4 which wins for white." > >So getting the first 5 ply, which are the essential moves, within 40 minutes >isn't too bad IMHO. In my mind "right move for the wrong reason" suggests bad >planning, but chess programs don't make plans. > >Mogens. What I was referring to was playing the right move with a score that is < 0, when the move is a _winning_ move. If the program _knows_ it is winning, it will have a positive score... If it doesn't know this, it is playing it for the wrong reason.
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