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Subject: Re: Will comp-comp become more positional as computers become faster?

Author: Mike S.

Date: 09:00:06 05/31/03

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On May 31, 2003 at 11:41:06, emerson tan wrote:

>Will comp-comp become positional as computers become faster?
>
>
>I autoplayed engines with time control of several hours per move on my 1333Mhz
>athlon, expecting to see deep tactics, but the game has lots of manueverings and
>devoid of tactics. I figured that both engines can see almost all the tactics
>that each engine avoiding them looks like meaningless manuvering to people like
>me. I hope its not the case because I find tactics more entertaining. I only
>tried 1 game because it takes so long to finish, so I hope its not the case for
>all games,

The solution would be easy: You'd just have to use *short* thinking times, not
long ones.

It may be, that there are still moves which could be considered tactical even in
long games, but very difficult to spot. Who can distinguish if tactics are based
on 15, 18 or 22 plies of calculation? Maybe Hübner with a phone book of analysis
:-) I cannot...

It has also been said (something like): postional play is just another term for
very deep tactics, more or less. This could fit to the play of engines when they
search very deep.

Regards
M.Scheidl



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