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Subject: Re: What is the public's opinion about the result of a match between DB and

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:16:52 04/28/01

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On April 28, 2001 at 10:14:40, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 27, 2001 at 23:57:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 27, 2001 at 16:53:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I never got a 0.00 score. I get a near to 0.00 score, so a positional
>>>draw and it is *not* a horizon effect.
>>
>>
>>Then I would say your evaluation there is _wrong_.  Just like those evals
>>where you have a queen vs 2 rooks and you say you are 2-3 pawns _ahead_
>>and then get destroyed in endgames when the rooks control everything.
>
>Note that search lines of diep were around 60 to 70 plies in this
>position because of all kind of stupid extensions.
>
>So the evaluation was very good. In fact Seirawan already concluded
>very quick it was a draw after he saw the Re8 move and a few other
>search lines.

You don't extend enough lines 60-70 plies to conclude _anything_.  To say
so is simply funny.

I don't recall _anybody_ concluding "very quick" that the thing was a draw.





>
>So human evaluation beats still the machine here by a large margin,
>as all search lines investigated by Seirawan already are within range
>of any chess programs search!


Not necessarily.  The "human evaluation" also includes "search" that is
not a conscious thing.




>
>>>
>>>DIEP's evaluation is biggest of the world. So obviously i have things inside
>>>it which others do not have and probably never will.
>>
>>
>>Biggest isn't always best.  Did you ever consider a career in the World
>>Wrestling Federation?  That is the kind of comments they make all the time.
>>It is the kind of comment I would _never_ consider making.
>
>Human evaluation is the best model we have so far, so getting a bit
>closer to that is not bad.
>
>The knowledge in diep is of course only a very small
>subset from what a human knows, assuming that human
>plays masterclass chess.
>
>Best regards,
>Vincent



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