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

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 11:52:30 05/31/03

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On May 31, 2003 at 13:58:12, Uri Blass wrote:

>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.

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

But if you are in search for a bottle with maximal content, then it is not sure
for the one you will find also to have a good taste.

>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.

By which means ?  Pure (poor) wish thinking !

Regards, Reinhard



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