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Subject: Re: DJ7 and Nolot #1

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:50:19 04/18/02

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On April 18, 2002 at 02:07:36, Slater Wold wrote:

>On April 17, 2002 at 23:03:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>>Took DTII 6 hours to find this move.
>>>
>>>Takes Ferret (4x450) under an hour to find it, and another 4 hours to show a
>>>score of +1.
>>>
>>>I thought it was pretty impressive, seeing as how DJ7 would play this move in a
>>>blitz game.  (It was still failing high when I ended the search.)
>>
>>\
>>Note that DT found it for the right reason (winning material).  DJ is finding
>>it by a simple evaluation term that happens to work well here.  The scores
>>obviously show that it doesn't think the move is winning anything...
>
>If computers only played moves they understood, well, you know.  ;)
>
>What you lack in skill, you hope to make up with a little luck.


That is what "serendipity" is all about.

:)



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