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Subject: Re: So which programs beat which, only due to superior chess understanding?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:45:51 05/07/02

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On May 07, 2002 at 11:43:02, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On May 07, 2002 at 11:11:53, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On May 06, 2002 at 19:37:12, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>I've also often wondered if even GM annotators know exactly what they're talking
>>>about, or put things in the right perspective. So you agree it seems!
>>> So, there are some games which are so deep searchwise that it is still not easy
>>>to check out all variations, even with a top computer.
>>> So in such games, you would be claiming that it is great human searching
>>>faculty at work, basically.
>>>
>>>Anyway, the big question now is, what is the value of many GM written chess
>>>books? All they can speak about is not-so-important things, and not very
>>>provable things. All they do is to illustrate with a game in which the final
>>>result is winning, when that knowledge is used, but it may not be BECAUSE of
>>>that!
>>>S.Taylor
>>
>>
>>I agree that many tactical annotations by GMs have errors in them.  Probably
>>"most" do.  I think any GM annotating any game since the early '90s is
>>*negligent* if he does not use a computer to assist with the tactics.  The
>>combination of a fast computer, strong program, and a GM spending the necessary
>>time will, IMHO, produce the best annotations.
>
>Some of the GM annotations that are very interesting do not need a computer. In
>fact, some of them do not even have a single variation. In those cases the help
>of the computer is very limited. It depends very much on the style of the
>annotator. One of the examples is David Bronstein, one of the all time great
>annotators.
>


I agree; that's why I specified "tactical annotations."  :-)



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