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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:58:12 05/31/03

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On May 31, 2003 at 12:56:04, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>On May 31, 2003 at 12:00:06, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On May 31, 2003 at 11:41:06, emerson tan wrote:
>>
>>>Will comp-comp become positional as computers become faster?
>
>[...]
>
>> 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.
>
>For my opinion this is not true at all. The problem is still to evaluate quiet
>positions only instead of positionally deescalated ones. You can have only a
>goal within tree evaluation which is visible as a leaf node. As I know evaluated
>leaf nodes today still ignore those dynamic positional aspects. The result is a
>tactically strong play with positional highlights only by luck.
>
>Regards, Reinhard


Programs do not need to evaluate all positions correctly in order to choose
good positional moves.

The point is that a positional advantage that they do not understand can be
translated to positional advantage that they understand when they do a deep
search.


Uri



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