Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 23:07:36 09/15/98
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On September 16, 1998 at 00:49:49, blass uri wrote: > >On September 15, 1998 at 17:54:09, Shaun Graham wrote: > > >>5.Also i might point out humans make bad moves quite frequently even at the GM >>level, so if i saw a positional blunder, i wouldn't be thinking my opponent is >>playing like a computer, but rather "Yes!! I have a win!!" > >There are some positional blunders computers do that no GM is going to do >The probability for these blunders is small but sometimes computers do not >do right evaluation of a pawn ending or do not see an idea of a simple fortress >position. Well first of all you are arguing with a GM, second of all, may positional mistakes are made because a player thinks that a move is setting up a tactical manouevre that happens to turn out faultily. Further GM's do blunder and occasionaly blunder huge! in the last 5 years Nigel Short has hung his queen in a 40/2 game and also he has missed a mate in 1! So to say that every GM would always avoid such and such a move isn't very reasonable IMHO. Further as Morovic pointed out since if it was a tournament (meaning probably one game) you wouldn't think it was anything but an anomaly if some strange move did occur. If it was a match such strange moves certainly wouldn't happen in all of the games, again leaving little room for such an asumption. >> >> >>So ultimately the likelyhood that i would think another opponent especially a GM >>was using a computer against me in a tournament or a match is almost zero. > >There is another way to suspect that the opponent is a computer. >You can see that the opponent thinks about obvious moves. > Most computers don't take an overly amount of timeon obvious moves, and further, GM's often think on obvious moves because they frequently go ahead and calculate what they think their next move will be after the obvous move. I.E. Frequently a player knows his capture is going to be followed by a counter capture, yet he sits and thinks anyway. Further COUNTLESS times i have played my computer and thought i knew the move it was going to play and then it played something totally different, so you don't even always know what is obvous to someone else.
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