Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 18:29:34 04/18/02
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On April 18, 2002 at 16:41:07, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 18, 2002 at 16:29:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 18, 2002 at 13:04:52, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On April 18, 2002 at 12:49:53, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>> You just lucked out that you like the position without >>>> seeing that it is really good. >>> >>>Good players are always lucky, eh? >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >> >>Where did you see that? If a program plays the right move for the wrong >>reason, it is "lucky". If it plays the right move for the right reason, >>it is good. >> >>I don't see much confusion. It liked the move, even thinking it was worse >>than a draw at first. That is the _wrong_ reason since this wins material. > >Seeing that it wins material is better than not seeing it but playing it for >positional reason is still better than not playing it unless the same positional >reason cause more often other blunders. > >If a program has an evaluation that cause it to be more lucky than the opponents >then it is a better program. > >In other words good players are more often lucky and it is similiar to what GCP >wrote. > >Uri Playing Nxh6 in the posted position (Nolot 1) isn't going to get you anywhere without playing the followup combination (Nf5, Qg4, etc.). So in this case, Junior is not finding the solution at all, and it's unlucky, IMO, that this is the case. The line given by Junior was very unconvincing, and at best probably leads to a draw. There are other moves in the position that can get merely a draw, but playing Nxh6 for the right reason is the only sure way to _win_ this position.
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