Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 13:27:19 10/21/03
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On October 21, 2003 at 14:27:29, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 21, 2003 at 14:04:28, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>On October 21, 2003 at 13:08:18, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On October 21, 2003 at 04:49:45, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >>> >>>>Thanks for your effort, Dann >>>> >>>>i believe Jeroen and Alex, that 16...b4 is already a loosing one. >>>>May be Dan Wulff's (Gandalf's Book Author) approach, to throw out all book >>>>lines, where after a short analyses absulute score is greater some threshold, is >>>>practical to avoid such book lines at all. >>> >>>I remain unconvinced that 16 .. b4 loses. Now, it might lose. But I have not >>>seen ANY convincing evidence that it does. >> >>I'm not sure - i still trust Jeroen's and Alex's competence and long year >>experience. And i don't think that they are playing games with us by having some >>"secret" refutation parat ;-) >> >>Ok, it always happend in the past, that some "dead" lines became playable again. >>One "hole" in such lines may let programs miss the decisive key move due to some >>very deep tactis with a rook or more less. >> >>Gerd > >Don't get me wrong. No Dann, absolutely not! >I am not saying that they are mistaken. Many times in the >past, I have questioned either human or computer analysis. Almost always, I am >proven wrong. Same for me. So many positions where programs have no clue due to tactial, dynamical reasons and one should analyse very deep a lot of lines. >What I am saying is that I have not seen the proof. On the other >hand, I have seen plausible alternatives. Therefore, I continue to have some >doubts until I have been shown why. > I missed the thread before. Curious about a reply of Alex or Jeroen, i guess they don't disappoint me ;-) >My own opinion is that there is always *some* doubt until either a checkmate or >stalemate has been rigorously proven. > >However, there are many cases where the doubt is very, very small.
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