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Subject: Re: Evaluation Autotuning

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 15:26:02 06/28/04

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On June 28, 2004 at 17:48:20, Angrim wrote:

>On June 28, 2004 at 17:16:58, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>Perhaps as a chessplayer I have a bit of different perspective.  I have played a
>>(very) little bit of bullet (1 0 usually).  In bullet, the _only_ measure of who
>>is winning is kingsafety.  Your goal is simply to get the king out in the open.
>>Then your opponent has lets say a 1/3 chance of a major game losing blunder each
>>move for 5-6 moves -> he loses.  Positional play is worthless because the game
>>_will_ be decided by a tactic.  That is why I don't like bullet.
>>
>>anthony
>
>This is only true when playing a human, and is irrelevant when talking
>about games between computers.  Computers play only slightly different at
>1 0 than they do at 5 0, unlike humans for which it is a quite different
>game.
>
>Angrim

Well, I think it is somewhat true for computers as well.  If I have Zappa play a
game at bullet timecontrols, it _will_ hang a piece at some point.

anthony



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