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Subject: Re: Nolot Positions #1

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 19:10:07 11/27/00

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On November 27, 2000 at 21:52:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

That's just a question of depth since the score is obviously improving. When a
program is improving its score by chosing the right moves (to a certain extent
as inaccuracy tends to creep in the further you go in the PV), then I consider
it to be the right reason.

If Nxh6 had been the only correct move in the PV, but the score > 0, then it's a
right move for the wrong reason to me. The score will improve if the PV keeps on
approaching the correct variation. You're doing a TC imitation by staring at the
score IMHO.

What score would imply "right reason" at depth 11?

Mogens.



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