Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:53:39 07/28/02
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On July 28, 2002 at 13:21:39, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 28, 2002 at 12:47:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 28, 2002 at 02:48:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On July 27, 2002 at 23:10:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>Oh that position, yeah there the Deep Blue search system >>>which are focussed upon mate threats, they should >>>work well there. >>> >>>Crafty is a bad compare here. >> >>How long does it take your program to get +2.5??? >> >>Best so far is Hiarcs at several minutes... > >The problem is that you cannot compare +2.5 of different programs because they >do not mean the same thing. > >I do not have chess system tal but I suspect that it may see +2.5 even faster >for positional reasons(of course it does not mean that chess sytem tal is better >in tactics). > >In the case of deep blue I do not know if the +2.5 is for tactical reasons or >for positional reasons. > >I also do not say that finding +2.5 for positional reasons is bad but I believe >that some research should be done before doing it if the target is to do >productive changes and it is not simple to do it in productive way. > >Uri I would tend to agree... However, in this position, it is pretty clear that this is winning material, and in reality +2.5 is just the beginning. It is definitely possible that a program might like this positionally, perhaps. And it is definitely possible to get a score far larger than +2.5 if you ramp up king safety...
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