Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:45:12 06/24/98
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On June 24, 1998 at 03:38:59, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >But anyway, it is such an interesting sacrifice with many chances for Black to >go wrong that I do not mind "DarkThought" to play it. Other games are lost in >much worse fashion than this position (if lost at all) after the sacrifice ... Yes, but now that I have you backing up, I'll give you another push. If a program sees a sacrifice because of some cool spiritual zen positional artifically intelligent thing, that is wonderful. But if it thinks it is winning a cold hard substantial material pawn down a bad 15-ply variation it is kind of hard to get too excited. Given that it seems common to want to play this, and we are not all perfect examples of zen positional spirituality, I suspect the latter. In particular I shake my head at the responses that seems to say, "look how zen positional spiritual program X is, it finds this in 3 seconds at ply 6." The move is wrong, and it is probably being selected for material reasons, gimme a break. So we're all materialist pigs here, getting our comeupance for making a greedy move that just happens to look zen positional spiritual. Mine would would do it too, remember, it does have it as the PV move for a while, so I'm not saying that mine is doing better. My search just failed before I could count my cash. bruce
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