Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:12:37 01/07/05
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On January 07, 2005 at 10:33:39, Duncan Roberts wrote: >On January 07, 2005 at 10:02:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On January 07, 2005 at 08:12:52, Duncan Roberts wrote: >> >>If there would be material win for white within say 60 plies of search from >>openings position then: >> a) it would have been found already if winning for white by GM's and >>especially by corr players. > >as only a small percentage of the positions possible withion 60 plies have been >analysed by gms' it is by no means impossible that they have missed something > > > Hell, even Uri Blass with his autistic logics could >>figure it out. >> b) when not winning for white black has some real great compensation >> perhaps black has a mate in 2 or something which my evaluation sees >> tens of plies in advance but your 60 ply beancounter will miss it >> c) a 60 ply material only search will reveal nothing significant as the >>position is only evaluated by material. > >well if there is a pawn to be taken in 60 plys, there is a good chance that the >60 ply search will reveal it. It is useful to know that. black may or may not >have compensation, but if you do not try you will not know. I can also add that there is a good chance that 60 plies search with null move pruning will not detect pawn win in 60 plies and even will not detect pawn win in 50 plies. Uri
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