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Subject: Re: Amir Ban will have his chance to prove that DB was NOT better

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 16:05:42 11/17/02

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On November 17, 2002 at 02:23:40, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 16, 2002 at 23:31:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 15, 2002 at 18:15:43, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I think that all the top programs of today can see Qe3 and can see Kh1 after
>>>enough time and it was not the case in the time of deeper blue.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>Show me _any_ program that shows that Kf1 is a draw and Kf1 is not.
>>
>>Or show me any program that shows that Qe3 is a draw while any other move
>>is not.
>>
>>There are none, so a program liking one or the other is simply lucky.  This
>>is an example of tactics, not strategy...
>
>We will have to agree to disagree.
>I think that the job of good evaluation is also to consider chances for
>perpetual check when you cannot see it by search.
>
>Uri

That would be fine. But no commercial program evaluates "perpetual
opportunities" in the evaluate code...




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