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Subject: Re: How humans think

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 11:08:10 02/04/04

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On February 04, 2004 at 13:17:20, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On February 04, 2004 at 12:59:04, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>Honestly, only fools would. And fail to win.
>
>cstal did and won against a strong chess program .
>is it a fool ?
>the difference between a fool and the genius is IMO the outcome of an idea.
>
>>It is the work the attacker has to do also just to make sure that the move, in
>>this case a sac, works. Because otherwise you lose.
>
>wrong.
>you don't have to prove that the idea works. the opponent will do.


Risky. Often too risky. Because in 99% such sacs do not work when your
calculation is not precise enough. And in those 99% the defender finds the
winning rescue if there is one.


>you have a thesis and you try it out.


Depends on my self-confidence, my chess skills, my temper and my experience...


>the better your thesis, the more often it will work.


The more accurate your calculation is...


>it worked for cstal against genius and shredder.


How often? ;-)


>so you can win without proving that it works.


Sure, you can sac like mad, when your opponent plays even worse you still win.
This is not how *I* like chess.


>of course it took the programmer arround 4 years finetuning with lots of games
>testing.
>4 years without a new version. you can only do as a commercial chess programmer
>if you have enough money or if you do it for fun. if SMK or others would not
>come on the market for 4 years ?! what would happen ?


Tell me. :-)




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