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Subject: Re: Chess-programming ethics.

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 08:48:15 06/10/98

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On June 10, 1998 at 10:44:05, blass uri wrote:

>
>On June 10, 1998 at 06:39:35, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>I don't know anything about suicide chess, but at some level it becomes
>>poor strategy to assume that your opponent will make mistakes.
>
>I think if the computer see that the opponent has an adventage of more
>than
>2 pawns it is better to assume the opponent will make mistakes
>otherwise the computer can do moves that do not give it a practical
>chance
>

According to my statistics, when I evaluate -2, I still expect to score
about 20%. This is pretty bad, but far from hopeless. My strategy would
still be to play the best moves against the best possible answers and
hope for the best.

Maybe there are exceptions. The best example I can think of is when the
computer sees that it loses to a combination that the opponent
overlooks, and makes a losing move to avoid this. I don't believe it's
something worth considering since I've never seen this happen. Computers
are usually better at seeing how they lose when they are already lost
anyway. Another example is simplifying to a completely lost endgame when
the alternative looks bad, but this is an evaluation problem.


Amir



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