Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 09:14:42 05/08/04
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On May 08, 2004 at 11:51:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 08, 2004 at 10:50:57, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>On May 08, 2004 at 07:18:27, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >> >>>On May 08, 2004 at 04:34:40, Sune Fischer wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>>>You are absulutely right. >>>>>>It is obvious that humans already solved chess so they know if a move is a >>>>>>blunder or not a blunder so you can be sure that all the question marks are >>>>>>correct. >>>>>> >>>>>>It is also obvious that the number of mistakes is what decides the game so if >>>>>>your opponent did 2 mistakes you can let yourself to do one mistake like letting >>>>>>him to force mate and you are not going to lose. >>>>>> >>>>>>:_( >>>>>> >>>>>>Uri >>>>> >>>>>You know, Uri, I have never seen you do anything but post how other people are >>>>>wrong (never with any reasons of course). Many other people have noticed your >>>>>unending flood of negativity. It is difficult to consider this post as anything >>>>>other than a flame. It appears I am going to have to take off the kid gloves >>>>>and dispose of you. >>>> >>>>Isn't it natural to only post if you disagree? >>>> >>>>Anyway, I suspect Uri has a point. >>>>It's not unusual for computers to play "unatural" moves, just think of the >>>>Hedgehog Junior played against Kasparov. >>>> >>>>All the time the GM's were saying how strange Junior's moves were, how "it >>>>showed no understanding of the position" blah blah blah. >>>> >>>>So please explain why Kasparov suddenly had to fight for a draw after 10 >>>>questionmark moves from Junior! >>>> >>>>-S. >>> >>>I never thought this day would come - but I agree with Uri here. :-) >>> >>>Sports aren't about beautiful play. Sports are about winning. If someone is >>>playing ugly, and winning, then it's your sense of aesthetics which needs to be >>>reviewed. >>> >>>Computers have a long history of winning ugly. In the recent Fritz-Kasparov and >>>Junior-Kasparov matches, the machines made many many more "mistakes" (according >>>to human opinion) than Kasparov. But - if these mistakes aren't punished - are >>>they really mistakes? Is it a mistake to leave Shaq wide open for three point >>>shots? (Or send him to the line for "free" throws?) It's impossible to speak >>>about objectivity here. You can only look at the results. >>> >>>Vas >> >>Let's take a look at some of the moves the annotator didn't like: >> >>[D]r2q1rk1/pp1n1ppp/2pbpn2/3p3b/8/1P1PPNPP/PBPN1PB1/R2Q1RK1 b - - 0 10 >> >>Zappa plays the obvious 10 ...e5. Deep Blue played 10 ...h6. I won't call this >>a bad move, but it's clearly a pass move. > >That isn't very convincing. Did you look at _your_ PV? move 4? :) > >Order doesn't mean much to alpha/beta as it scores positions, not moves as they >are played. > >First impression is that h6 and e5 transpose to the _same_ position... > > I will accept that my 4 ply search plays pass moves some of the time :) Zappa uses pure R=3 now, and perhaps the evaluation isn't quite good enough for it. anthony
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