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Subject: Re: alpha-beta is silly?

Author: blass uri

Date: 15:51:26 06/02/98

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On June 02, 1998 at 12:54:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 02, 1998 at 11:22:58, blass uri wrote:
>

>>good players do also other things

>>2) if they do not see a forced line
>>(they have no time to check all the possibilities)
>>they can use a statistics to decide
>>if they see in a position  that every line they analyze
>>leads to their win when they play against themselves
>>they decide to go to the position.
>
>
>I don't believe human players do this.  I personally analyze concrete
>variations when appropriate, and rely on intuition when it is not
>possible
>due to time constraints.  Given the chance and the time, I'll analyze to
>reach a position I feel I can win.  Given less time I'll resort to my
>intuition to recognize positions I should be able to win...  and I will
>be wrong on occasion by doing so.  That's one of the things that
>separates
>the GM from the IM and so forth. The GM's "intuition" is better.

I do not do this because I cannot imagine clearly the final position
but I believe many correspondence players do it.

Uri




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