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Subject: Re: Any conclusion on a previous post: A possible DB analysis move?

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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