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Subject: Re: Simple position - no understanding for many chess programs

Author: Mike S.

Date: 14:47:42 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 17:29:27, Dann Corbit wrote:

>How about "make coffee?"
>
>1500 players will occasionally see things that computers don't.  The hard part
>is getting to a position like that.  The odds of working your way through the
>maze to the point where you can see something the computer does not are
>incredibly small.

This fits exactly to the experiences form my example above,
http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?213413. I started halfway through
the maze when playing this, in a position from Nimzowitsch-Tartakower,
Kopenhagen 1923.

But it's not just that a program lacks a special piece of knowledge. The
opponent must know of, or at least suspect, that weakness. That means, such
things will be visible in comp-comp games much less often that in comp-human
games, when the player aims dirctly at a certain motif the program might miss.

Regards,
M.Scheidl

P.S. Another topic, meanwhile I've downloaded SCID you wrote about on rgcc -
it's great! Really impressive ideas. Not optimal usability for me though,
windows handling etc., but still outstanding. I've immediatly contributed some
help, translating some remaining messages for the german language file.





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