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Subject: Re: Research idea? re: weight optimization

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 11:35:28 12/30/01

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On December 30, 2001 at 08:17:57, Albert Silver wrote:

>On December 29, 2001 at 17:13:34, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On December 29, 2001 at 12:15:17, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>a question of one move, but all the moves that lead to it as well. Another
>>>problem is that you may be choosing a position that also requires a certain
>>>depth to be achieved even with the correct criteria and weights, and that depth
>>
>>At some point, you have to consider the eval function a predictor of the future.
>>Any term in an eval function exists to solve some tactical problem that occurs
>>in the unforseen future...
>>
>>-Tom
>
>That depends entirely on your definition of tactics. Not all fatal positional
>problems lead to tactical problems even when they are losing. Tactics and
>calculation aren't the same thing.

Why not ?

On the other hand, one can definitely
>consider a positional problem to BE a very long-term tactical problem,

Right, I agree with you.

but that
>doesn't mean other tactical issues will result from it later. Still, that has
>littel to do with the issue I presented. How can you solve a 5-move deep
>combination, where the final key is in the last ply, in 3 moves? Even if you
>change all the weights to force the right answer in only 3 moves, then based on
>what did it find the move? Tarot card reading?

LOL :)

Otello.
>
>                                         Albert



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