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Subject: Re: DJ7 and Nolot #1

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 12:43:51 04/18/02

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On April 18, 2002 at 12:50:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.
>
>:)

Good movie.  Too bad I am not that "serendiptious".  ;)



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