Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 19:07:20 02/22/04
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On February 22, 2004 at 13:46:26, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi, > >> Of course he has his right to his oppinions, but somehow most of what he said >> didn't sound very computer chess savvy to me anyway, what do you guys think? > >well, in my opinion he is quite right with what he is saying... The only point I >doubt is that he thoughts that computers sometimes not play what they think it >is best. That is wrong - they always try to maximize there evaluation. Correct >is, that IMO nowadays evaluation is a bit more speculative in sometimes >positional factors are considered to be more important then material. But this >says only that the quality of evaluation is improved/different then it was some >years ago. Or have you ever seen a program playing actively a trojan horse ? >At least I agree with him that the battle is not yet over - it might take a long >period until computers are superior to humans. Still computers are unable to >make any plans even if it looks sometimes different. The current main problem >for humans is, that a single move is enough to destroy the game and that >computers are simply not impressed when they must defend. There is no >psychologic factor in computers play where there is in humans play. Like Lautier >says, for most humans it is way more complicate to defend - for computers this >is more or less all the same... > >Greets, Thomas Well I think you hit the nail right on the head about how defending is exactly the same as attacking according to computers. But you can extend this to all parts of the game, if a human sees a sacrifice he can make, but something is knawing at him, that he's missing a line when he trys and evaluate, or if he sees a win, he doesn't get nervous and starts double guessing all his moves, to a computer its all mathematics, all numbers, it doesn't care about anything, put Shredder 8 against Anand or Kram and it might lose in a 8 game series, but it against them for a 35 game series and you'll se a big difference
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