Author: blass uri
Date: 03:41:00 09/16/98
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On September 16, 1998 at 02:07:36, Shaun Graham wrote: >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! The question is if he was in time trouble when he did this mistake. >So to say that every GM would >always avoid such and such a move isn't very reasonable IMHO. I can only say that I saw some mistakes of computers that I expect myself not to do if I am not in time trouble and I am far from being a GM (I have 2020 fide elo). 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. It does not make sense to do it because you can do it in the next move when you can see the position more clearly. Uri
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