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Subject: Re: Why not anti computer?

Author: Roger D Davis

Date: 18:25:53 05/21/05

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On May 21, 2005 at 19:38:21, Darrel Briley wrote:

>On May 21, 2005 at 14:12:12, Roger D Davis wrote:
>
>>On May 21, 2005 at 12:43:33, Darrel Briley wrote:
>>
>>>On May 21, 2005 at 12:27:38, Evgeny Shu wrote:
>>>
>>>>anti chess is like the opposite of chess,
>>>>but you actually ttry to win , so I would call it anti computer style :)
>>>>That's how the technique called I believe
>>>
>>>No, from looking at the games, I don't think he tries to win
>>
>>If he wasn't trying to win, he couldly probably draw in fewer moves.
>
>Again, as I've already posted, if you consider doing nothing in the hope your
>opponent will run out of time trying to win, then yes, he is trying to win.

I think where we disagree is that he's "doing nothing." I think there's an
intense amount of cognitive activity involved in keeping closely to an
anticomputer strategy. You're still mini-maxing, but the lines you're choosing
are lines that support your strategy, that maintain the blockade. To me, that's
not doing nothing. If it was nothing, anyone could do it.

Roger



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