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Subject: Re: Nullmove crap

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 05:55:56 12/19/02

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On December 18, 2002 at 22:34:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Here is the point.  I will play you 100 games.  And in _each_ game, at a
>place of my choice, I get to make two moves in a row.  I believe I can win that
>match 100-0.
>
>If I am in a position where I make two moves in a row and _still_ can't do any
>damage to your position, my position sucks badly...

But chess is no such game.

Bob, you didn't read the text of that interview. Feist said that FRITZ could not
have been made so strong without a special selectivity. Now my argument goes
against such myst. I say that a super GM, a Kramnik, knows of many long-range
tools, other than just exchanging Q and so on. It also goes against that myst
because with high select. you must oversee something by force. Something with
deeper solution of course, because otherwise you (the computer) would have found
it. So, nullmove, if it is presented as THE solution for superior chess, is crap
IMO. It's not just the technique, it's more the propaganda myst.

Rolf Tueschen



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