Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 14:13:29 05/27/02
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On May 21, 2002 at 10:13:29, K. Burcham wrote: > >not discussing opening book moves. >not discussing egtb's. >not discussing a pawn promotion. > > > >lets start out saying GM eval is 0, and program eval is 0. >lots of time left on both clocks. time is not an issue. > >the GM makes a move and plays what he sees as a safe move. >GM took three minutes to move, but he cannot see the material winning >combination for the program. >the program takes three more minutes to see material winning move. >finally program plays winning move, and GM can see combination. > >program wins. > >If GM's cannot learn strategy from programs, if GM's can only learn tactics, >then the question is: in the above described game , it would seem that most of >the time the GM cannot learn tactics either. if the combination is too deep for >the GM to see he loses material, then he cannot see this in another game. > >Just wondering how a GM can learn from home practice with programs. >it would seem that in a postion were the GM could play a losing move and he >cannot see the deep combination, but the program can, he could not have won >anyway. > >maybe some will answer that this is not possible. maybe some will say there >is no posiiton that the program can see winning material but GM cannot. > >of course i am not refering to an simple oversight by the GM. i am not refering >to a simple human blunder. i am refering to a situation that the GM says he >could not see the combination until it was played out. > >kburcham I am not a GM and therefore cannot speak with authority as to what a GM can or cannot do. However, it seems to me that the more time you spend with chess [ANY kind of chess], the better you will get at chess in general. To that extent, at least, I would expect that the GM can learn from practice with programs. Bob D.
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