Author: Mike S.
Date: 22:06:51 12/07/02
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On December 08, 2002 at 00:50:31, stuart taylor wrote: >(...) >Now, If what I want is greater insights into chess, OK so I occasionally allow >up to 2 hours per move with what I (will) have. That is already more insight >than the computer side of the recent Kramnik/DF match, and the upcoming >Kasparov/DJ match. It may sound strange, but I think even with todays hardware already, 2 hours per move give much *less* insight than 2 minutes per move. Because, if an engines's evaluation jumps from, say +0.27 to +1,96 *after* more than 2 minutes, it will be already very difficult to get an insight what's happening :o)) An example: [D]3Q4/3p4/P2p4/N2b4/8/4P3/5p1p/5Kbk w - - 0 1 I guess the important improvements will be more detailed information, better presented than just by the eval/pm/pv, GM-like advise scenarios where you can ask particular questions about the position and possible plans (preferably answered in natural language using variants and board graphics, but more flexible than known so far), and things like that. Pure chess strength (alone) will not be sufficient to make progress, because it won't really be interesting if the prog has 2950 or 2999 elos. And it may be useful when positions like the one above are solved faster (again), like in 3 seconds maybe, but after that it's not very interesting anymore to improve any further in terms of speed IMO. Regards, M.Scheidl
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