Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:33:34 07/29/98
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On July 29, 1998 at 13:21:05, Danniel Corbit wrote: >On July 29, 1998 at 10:48:44, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On July 29, 1998 at 10:06:43, Danniel Corbit wrote: >> >>>Let's say, for the sake of jihad, that we define sensible moves in the following >>>manner: >>>From a given FEN position, look at what every GM who has ever visited that >>>position has done. >>>From the same FEN position, let every top commercial and amateur program examine >>>that position for 24 hours. >>>At this point, we would have, I suspect, a small list of possible very good >>>moves, a mid sized list of so-so moves, and a large list of bad moves. >> >>Perhaps. >>I don't know what this would accomplish, and it seems like similar things have >>been done by people who do opening book stuff. >>Basically, what you're writing isn't really related to the topic at hand. >I disagree. It is related, because I believe that an exhaustive search has very >little value, and a careful analysis of the "ahem" good moves has a very high >value. Well, if you already know what the good moves are, why don't you just play them and get on with it? Your point seems to be that exhaustive search is useless. I won't even begin to debate this because it's impossible anyway. When it's possible, we can debate about it. :) Cheers, Tom
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