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Subject: Re: Corrected

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:34:20 09/09/01

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On September 09, 2001 at 14:36:07, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 09, 2001 at 13:54:03, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>The problem is that I cannot prove even +1.xx and even in the last positions in
>>the line that I got by email I can see only 0.xx evaluation(I do not care about
>>the fact that black has material advantage of 1 pawn in the end of the line
>>because programs can see that white has some positional compensation for the
>>pawn).
>
>As I said, there is no guarantee at all that I had the best moves
>for black in the line I emailed. I just picked something where black
>wins.
>
>So you don't agree black wins there. Well what a surprise.
>
>>Singular etensions are extensions for things that you can prove.
>>If in almost every node there are 2-3 logical lines then it is clear that
>>singular extensions can prove nothing.
>
>My implementation of SE for crafty (which is suboptimal) finds
>that black is ahead (it doesnt see the win of the piece -yet-)
>three plies earlier than normal crafty.

ahead is not winning and 3 plies are not 20 plies.
20 plies difference does not make sense.

deep Fritz also agrees that black is ahead after Bg5 and it believes that white
did a positional mistakes some mobves before.

>
>As I said before. It's not because _you_ can't see something that
>it isn't there.

It is more logical to assume that it is not than that it is.
It does not make sense to assume that Deep thought could
really see winning 2 pawns.

Unfortunately I have not the email of hsu (otherwise I would ask him directly
about it).

Maybe we can solve the problem if hsu says that the +2 was result of a bug
or of a big positional score than we can solve this problem.

Uri



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