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Subject: Re: The latest truth on chess ?

Author: Christian Kongsted

Date: 03:01:23 07/10/01

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On July 09, 2001 at 15:42:31, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>On July 09, 2001 at 13:43:13, Christian Kongsted wrote:
>
>>Kasparov:
>>The depth of the computer's calculation gives it certain positions
>>understanding. Even as we saw today, machines don't
>>>understand many things. But only if it goes beyond the depth of its
>>>calculation."
>>>
>>This comment by Kasparov is very deep, and its not a publicity stunt. Nobody -
>>computers or humans - can see the game to the end, and therefore we develop the
>>concept of positional understanding. For humans, it is indeed a feeling, and it
>>is at least as important as calculating variations. For machines you put things
>>on formula so you get plusses for the bishop pair in open positions etc.
>>
>>I dont believe that a human that only analyses chess as tactics will ever come
>>much above 2000 ELO. But I may be wrong here. Whats your ELO, Otello?
>
>My elo is not very high indeed...but I know that Mr. Kasparov is famous because
>he can calculate very deeply, and I believe this is one of his strongest weapon
>in this difficult discipline.
>I've read that one of his "quote" for success in chess is : "calculate,calculate
>and calculate".
>

It is indeed a very strong weapon of Kasparovs, I agree. I just got a bit
provoced by your initial statement "Chess is tactics", which I found too
simplistic


>Regards.
Christian



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