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Subject: Re: Fritz 9- Boom or Bust?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:05:10 09/02/05

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On September 02, 2005 at 09:17:09, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On September 02, 2005 at 05:20:12, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 02, 2005 at 05:05:08, Majd Al-Ansari wrote:
>>
>>>Take away the tactical prowess of computers, and they are helpless against even
>>>an average IM.
>>
>>Of course if computers are not allowed to search forward and humans are allowed
>>to search forward then humans have advantage.
>>
>>Even an average IM may calculate often more than 10 plies forward in the
>>relevant lines.
>>If you limit the search not to allow computers to search more than 10 plies
>>forward then humans have unfair advantage and if you do not do it then it is not
>>clear how do you take away the tactical prowess of computers.
>>
>>
>>
>>  There is still tons to be learned from human chess.  A move that
>>>a GM would not even consider, might be played by even the strongest chess entity
>>>in the world.  A good example of that is Hydra vs. the correspondence chess
>>>champ.
>>
>>
>>I think that Nickel simply outsearched Hydra by analyzing deeper the relevant
>>lines.
>
>The word relevant lines is quite revealing. If Nicel searches deeper in the
>relevant lines than Hydra, then it must have something to learn from humans. To
>search the relevant lines you need to evaluate what is relevant in the posision
>correctly.
>
>Torstein

I do not claim that humans are not better than computers in nothing

The point is that I do not think that their advantage is in their ability to
properly give number scores to the leaf positions and the poster wrote the
following also in his post:
"A computer that has the ability to properly assess the end
positions of an evaluation at the level of a 2200 player will squash even the
most powerful chess computer."

Uri



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