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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