Author: Pete Galati
Date: 18:26:09 12/21/00
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On December 21, 2000 at 21:18:21, James T. Walker wrote: >On December 21, 2000 at 17:06:55, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: > >>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 ;-} > >CSTal-2 has been known to lose a game or two occasionally in spite of it's >brilliant sacrificial style. :-) >Jim I got no experience with the program, is that "in spite of" or because of "it's brilliant sacrificial style"?? Pete
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