Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 14:37:01 11/18/98
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On November 18, 1998 at 15:14:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >On November 18, 1998 at 08:55:35, Thom Perry wrote: >>On November 17, 1998 at 22:59:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>A. How many games were resigned from a clearly winning position? >>>B. How many openings from the ECO classification have one side down by at least >>>three pawns when the formation is fully developed? >>>C. What percentage of great moves were simply never seen, even by intense >>>computer analysis using a variety of programs? >>>D. What kind of positions are the most difficult for computers to properly >>>solve? >>>E. What kind of positions are much harder for humans to solve than computers? >>> >> >>Who cares? At best, some of this information may be interesting, but >>useful? Knowing how many games were resigned from a clearly winning >>position is going to help me in an OTB or computer chess game? Not >>hardly. Same for the rest. >Perhaps a clever person such as yourself can figure out more salient queries >that will have value for you. If nothing else, it may make your favorite chess >program play slightly better during the openings. Those were simply examples >that are interesting to *me*. Your interest may be along completely different >lines. At any rate, to the best of my knowlege, a study of this nature has >never even been attempted. We can't really know what we will find out until we >give it a go. > >Of course, no one is going to put a gun to your head and make you participate. >It's voluntary. Acutally, I wrote some software for what was basically a B.Sc. thesis, though my B.Sc. was not really a thesis degree, the thesis was for a project course. A search picked nodes to expand, the work was sent out to machines on the internet and collected, then new nodes were picked to expand, and so on. Unfortunately, I ran out of time. (surprise :-) My program was just about done - If I recall correctly, the main part of what was left was to resolve some bugs in my file locking. I had intended to finish it up when I started my master's degree in January. I was going to use a real database as the back end instead of my home-grown stuff. Since Dann began running his thing though, I'm not sure there's any more point in doing so. Dave Gomboc
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