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Subject: Re: Well said Mr. Hyatt! (NT)

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 02:33:46 01/29/02

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On January 28, 2002 at 13:54:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Does this really matter?  IE does it matter when I win a drag race, whether
>I produced a bit more horsepower than my opponent, or whether I removed a few
>more pounds from the automobile than he did?  If one program has no eval
>and one program has a big eval but no search, and they both play well, does
>it really matter how they do it?  Something tells me they will do the same
>amount of "work" but that the work will be expended in different ways.  To
>produce the _same_ result...
>
>I think it is incorrect to solve tactical positions based on positional
>concepts, because of the exceptions.  I also think it is perfectly ok to
>solve positional things tactically, because then you are seeing the _real_
>issue the "positional knowledge" is trying to generalize about...
>



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