Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 18:20:33 12/11/02
I will be gone for a week but leave with this one thought: Equal "positional" positions need not be quiet. They may be highly imbalanced. They may still be equal, meaning that "There are equal chances for both sides." If the tactics are beyond the normal search horizon of the chess engine, as limited by the time constraints [so many moves per hour], then I wonder whether or not modern chess engines would do well. These are what someone was referring to as "imbalances." In theory, each player should try to take advantage of his/her advantages and keep the opponent from doing likewise. The chess engine would have to "recognize" it's advantages and "realize" that they should be utilized, to express it in human terms. Of course, chess engines don't think the way humans do, so some other equivalent process needs to happen. I don't know what, exactly. The position tells the human what to pursue and what the opponent should be pursuing. Is there anything equivalent to that in the chess engine world? When I return, I'll try to find a few positions which illustrate this. Bob D.
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