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Subject: Re: Question for Bob Hyatt re Crafty's superior analysis

Author: martin fierz

Date: 07:49:25 11/17/03

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On November 17, 2003 at 10:27:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 17, 2003 at 09:31:28, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>On November 17, 2003 at 09:19:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On November 17, 2003 at 07:34:51, Albert Silver wrote:
>>>
>>>>>That's not a place where _I_ would have resigned, for the record...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I can't attest to it, as I don't receive it in Brazil, but comments in the ICC
>>>>chat said that at the end the ESPN coverage had been cut. Combined with the fact
>>>>that I also don't believe GK was going to miss the comp, I'd say that's a pretty
>>>>reasonable conspiracy theory... :-)
>>>>
>>>>                                           Albert
>>>
>>>
>>>I wasn't watching ESPN's coverage.  I was online on ICC with Crafty running
>>>in channel 211 as usual.  The resignation came with crafty at +2, which seems
>>>_way_ early, unless there is some sort of agreement that when Fritz goes
>>>down -2 it _must_ resign...
>>
>>you seem to believe that the number the eval spits out has something to do with
>>how hard it is to win a position... that isn't true ;-)
>>
>>cheers
>>  martin
>
>
>I seem to remember "meat makes mistakes".  I might resign at -5 or something,
>but not at -2.  Remember that Kasparov had good positions in games 1 and 2.
>In game two he lost, rather than Fritz "winning".  I'd want to have him
>demonstrate that he would not do the same thing in game 3.  :)

meat makes mistakes *much* more frequently when either
- meat is in time trouble
- the position is complicated
both was not the case here. it was the appropriate moment to resign. i guess if
you play out a few more moves on your machine, as suggested by the commentators
(or basically, exchange a few more pieces by invading on the a-file), crafty
will soon say +3 or more for white.

cheers
  martin



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