Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:04:38 12/29/01
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On December 29, 2001 at 16:44:51, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>On December 29, 2001 at 11:55:21, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On December 29, 2001 at 04:40:03, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>
>>>On December 29, 2001 at 04:24:55, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 28, 2001 at 23:51:33, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 28, 2001 at 21:57:03, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I think it is rather well established by now that human players are, like
>>>>>>computers, studying a chess tree, trying to find the best possible continuation.
>>>>>
>>>>>Actually, not. That is the vicious influence from Kotov's teaching that
>>>>>made everybody think that they should think like a tree.
>>>>>There are recently two books that finally made in writing what everybody
>>>>>suspected. "Improve your Chess Now" by J. Tisdall and "Secrets of Practical
>>>>>Chess". Not even amateurs are taught NOT to think like a tree nowadays, and the
>>>>>best book about it is "How to reasess your Chess" by J. Silman.
>>>>>
>>>>>First quote from Tisdall's book, first Chapter ("The Fabled Tree of Analysis"):
>>>>>
>>>>>"I do not think like a tree - do you think like a tree?" GM Anatoly Lein.
>>>>>
>>>>>There are certain situations where a strong player think like a tree, but
>>>>>their thinking should certainly not be characterized by that.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Taking as an example Kasparov, he is renowned for his powerful calculations
>>>>capabilities of the variations (...tree), both in analysis and both in OTB.
>>>
>>>Being able to come up with variations does not a tree searcher make.
>>>
>>>A SEE can come up with a variation and it's not searching anything.
>>
>>
>>
>>I don't think so.
>>
>>My SEE for example is a recursive function. It is a tree searching algorithm,
>>but a special one
>
>Maybe you should call it a DEE then.
>-Tom
Why DEE???
Christophe
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