Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 12:06:57 12/03/01
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On December 03, 2001 at 04:44:15, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On December 03, 2001 at 02:19:13, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: > >>On December 02, 2001 at 21:35:13, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>[snip] >> >>>For a user, it should not actually matter _at_ _all_, because one >>>should never trust or use anything but the first move in the mainvariation >>>anyway. >> >>It matters a lot for an "advanced" player, i.e. somebody that analyzes >>a position with the "help" of a computer rather than analyzing a position >>"with" a computer. > >Care to explain? I have been playing advanced chess with Fritz 7 >and had no problems. The PV might give you an idea whether the computer is seeing something real or stupid (particularly in endgames). It is more information and many times the human can skip some forced moves and analyze an intermediate position in the PV for confirmation (particularly in king attacks). Miguel
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