Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 10:34:14 06/24/98
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On June 24, 1998 at 12:45:12, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >Yes, but now that I have you backing up, I'll give you another push. You are very welcome to try to do so ... :-) >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. I violently disagree with your "materialistic assessment". The programs that like any of the two sacrifices (Nxe6, Rxe6) seem to be happy to trade material for the attacking chances they see and score within their search horizon. In this particular case, the speculation turns out to be wrong -- so what? As for the "program P finds move X in time T and iteration Y" posts in general, you are right -- but sometimes its just nice to tell the world that your program solves interesting positions ... :-) =Ernst=
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