Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:59:37 09/19/01
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On September 19, 2001 at 15:57:08, Uri Blass wrote: > >There are a lot of computer-human games from the past and >I almost never see humans trade all the pieces to win pawn endgames against >programs. > >Junior played against GM's in serious tournaments and I never saw the GM's trade >all the pieces in order to win a pawn endgame. You didn't understand my comment quite correctly. Crafty vs cptnbluebear was a daily marathon. With crafty pretty well always having the upper hand. But once he found a specific weakness, he was good enough to almost always exploit it. Not _every_ game of course, as some simply followed tactical book lines that didn't resolve into an endgame every time. But when he could, he took advantage. In a match against a GM, you don't want to draw 5 and lose 1 over and over. The match goes lost that way. Assuming he exploits the hole one of every 5 games. cptnbluebear managed to do it way more than that for a period of time on ICC. not only against me, but against others as well. > >I guess that if it happens then the problem is not only in evaluating pawn >endgames but also in evaluating previous positions. Not every game leads to a tactical win. Anti-computer strategies control this to an extent by keeping things blocked and simplifying whenever possible. > >I believe that programs can usually avoid a losing a pawn endgame by search or >avoid doing an error because they plan a pawn endgame if they have better or >equal endgames that is not a pawn endgames. > >There were serious tournament of human against computers in holland and even >some years ago humans usually did not win pawn endgames against computers >and they could know about this strategy because anand won a pawn endgame in 1994 >against Genius3. > >The fact that the hardware get better does not help humans to win pawn endgames >against computers so I need to see examples from games to see if there are >programs that lose often pawn endgames against humans. > >If there is a program that is losing often pawn endgames against humans or >losing games because of not evaluating pawn endgames correctly then I want to >see the games. > >Uri
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