Author: blass uri
Date: 14:10:48 06/10/98
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On June 10, 1998 at 15:25:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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 > >I think this will get you killed. IE what if your opponent is simply >out-searching you, and reaches a position where it loses material no >matter >how deeply it searches. If you assume it will make mistakes, it will >hand >you your head in a paper sack. if I am in a bad position it is not important if I lose after 70 moves or after 40 moves. If my opponent is a good computer it will not help but if it is a human maybe I think it can help to get more points but it is not very important because in the most of the cases it will not help > > >> >>there are some assumption that can be done >> >>1)you can assume in this case that the opponent must do in the next move >>the move the computer would do if it had only 1 second per move. >>2)you can assume the human opponent will miss long moves. >> >>but I think it is not very important for top programs because >>in most of the cases these ideas will not help against strong opponents. >> > >I think this is too dangerous. And it will cause you to lose games >against >deeper-searchers, simply because of the luck factor that will >occasionally >get you into a winning position. But when you incorrectly deduce that >this is not luck on your part, but, rather, is a lack of skill on your >opponent's part, look out... I think it will not cause me to lose games because if the opponent has a big adventage and is a deep searcher I lose in any case maybe 2 pawns is not big enough and it should be more than 3 pawns but the idea is clear because my idea was against humans only when you see the human is going to win. Uri
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