Author: stuart taylor
Date: 08:55:54 02/11/03
For example, if there is a sacrifice that forces huge complications which are overwhelming for the attacked, but more in favour of the attacKER, even if, after everything is thwarted, the attacker might lose, the sacrifice MIGHT be an excellent and winning move, and must be judged as that, if against one who will lose from it, especially if another move (without the sacrifice) would not achieve the same end. BUT a machine can not do that, so therefore, a machine will always have that weakness in chess. Perhaps, a program can be programmed to accept some sacrifice of its position/material, in, and ONLY in such situations in which the resulting complications would be unsolvable to humans. But then, it would have to be only on anti-human setting. And perhaps, even on comp/comp setting, if the complications are too great even for another computer! S.Taylor
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