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Subject: Re: It's a draw! Good defense Rebel!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:41:19 01/04/01

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On January 04, 2001 at 06:09:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On January 03, 2001 at 14:13:50, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 03, 2001 at 13:03:43, Howard Exner wrote:
>>
>>>On January 03, 2001 at 12:42:11, Paul Doire wrote:
>>>
>>>>Van der Wiel missed some opportunities, but Rebel defended well.
>>>
>>>I wonder if the missed opportunities of Van der Wiel will adversely
>>>effect his play in the next round? Sometimes it is not easy to shake off the
>>>disappointment one feels when missing a win. Being a strong professional Gm he
>>>probably will come out swinging. Here of course computers have an edge in the
>>>energy level they bring to each game. Their programmers probably make up for the
>>>machine's non existent feelings. How is Ed's health holding up after this one?
>>>Maybe paramedics should be on standby? :)
>>>
>>>Another thought on the match so far, if the two games were reversed, in that
>>>Rebel missed winning chances, would we be as forgiving? In other words are our
>>>expectations of computers too high?
>>
>>I was disappointed from van der Wiel.
>>
>>I expected a GM to be better in tactics.
>>It leads to the question if programs can teach humans to be better in tactics by
>>giving them the right exercises to solve.
>>
>>Uri
>
>At a certain age no lessons help anymore however.
>
>Tactics you need to learn at age = 11 to 19

I am more optimistic about the ability of humans to learn.
You can learn new things after age 19.

I can accept that young humans can learn more but old humans can also learn if
they train some hours per day with the right positions(books of combination are
not very productive because there is often tactics that does not include
sacrifices).

The right positions to train should be positions when humans did tactical
mistakes  when the target is to avoid a tactical mistake.

Uri



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