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Subject: Re: The naked truth: chess is 100% tactics

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:01:14 01/31/03

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On January 31, 2003 at 08:16:05, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On January 31, 2003 at 05:01:20, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:
>
>>Kasparov once told that chess is 100% tactics.
>>
>>Well saying that after Rxg7 in game 3 white is better because he has the
>>initiative is not a tactical reasoning and Deep Junior has shown to us that
>>sometimes, supported by pure calculations, one can enter in a position like that
>>on the board after Nh6. This looks like a position that only a "human patzer"
>>would play, and still DJ held it against Kasparov.
>>
>>The lesson is that we can continue to use positional evaluations as a
>>shortcoming to actual calculations, as any GM does in his "pattern-matching"
>>scan of each position on the board. But computers can do better with 100%
>>tactics.
>>
>>What I like of this match is that Kapsarov is playing almost as he does in
>>trounaments, I hope he will not switch stile after this defeat.
>>
>>Actually I think that an anticomputer strategy is still possible, as the games
>>by some minor player show, based on extreme-long term planning, but will work
>>only sometimes, and other times you'll be the victim of your long term planning.
>>
>>bye
>>Franz
>
>
>This is all big nonsense. And I am sure that you would not follow your own guide
>lines if you had to fight for your life. We_know_ for sure that the position was
>bad for Black.


How can you be sure about it?

I am not sure about my knolwedge of which side is better.
I believe that humans often have wrong knolwedge.

I do not claim that in that case the opinion of humans that white was better is
wrong but we have no data to be sure.

Uri



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