Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 14:06:55 12/21/00
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On December 21, 2000 at 16:03:09, Uri Blass wrote: >The question is if it can win with Rxh2. That's a valid question. Remeber however it wasn't the question "will black win with this move" but "will black *find* the move", and it did; If Rxh2 loses badly it can also be an indication of extremely bad calculating. If. If. >If it find Rxh2 but is losing with this move against other programs then I do >not consider it as a solution. That remark is bungling in the air a bit. What would be the reason for that? That statement is more speculative than the one made in the original post. What is relevance of the remark? That goes for anything: if the shoepolish machine starts polishing your shoes, but stops in between, your shoes won't be polished and I won't consider it a shoe polish machine. But *why* should the shoe polish machine doesn't do it's work properly? Is there any indication the shoe polish machine will stop, without seeing it working -and failing- a lot of cycles? Based on the way a chess engine works -including CS Tal II- the chances any chess program finding a winning move and winning with it are bigger than the chances it finds a (*any*) winning move and still loses. A winning move is in most cases the beginning of a tactical sequence and no doubt an engine will calculate that right with greater chance than failing along the way; Anyhow, regardless of your own ideas about it, my message simply stated CS Tal found the move asked for in 44 seconds, what no other engine did so far. Jeroen ;-}
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