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Subject: Re: The Reigning of Stupidity and Mere Power in Computerchess

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:04:18 09/03/05

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On September 03, 2005 at 15:54:54, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On September 03, 2005 at 15:26:47, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 03, 2005 at 14:08:58, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>>On September 03, 2005 at 13:33:26, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 03, 2005 at 12:37:31, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 03, 2005 at 10:03:24, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Last Position:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>[D]8/8/5p2/5B2/5b1p/6k1/7p/7K w - - 0 1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You see:
>>>>>>Fewer knowledge brings more points!!!
>>>>>
>>>>>I don't understand your comment about fewer knowledge.
>>>>>
>>>>>I was convinced, Yace would show 0.0 immediately in this position. But it
>>>>>didn't. It turned out, that I had a wrong comment in the source, and the
>>>>>detection of this type of draws would only work for the single rook pawn, but
>>>>>not for doubled or tripled rook pawn. After few keystrokes in the source, I get:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>       169   0.000   0.00  1t  1.Be6 {-240}
>>>>>       179   0.000   0.00  1.  1.Be6 {-240}
>>>>>       195   0.000   0.00  2t  1.Be6 h3 {-240}
>>>>>       225   0.000   0.00  2.  1.Be6 h3 {-240}
>>>>>       278   0.000   0.00  3t  1.Be6 h3 2.Bf7 {-240}
>>>>>       308   0.000   0.00  3.  1.Be6 h3 2.Bf7 {-240}
>>>>>       399   0.000   0.00  4t  1.Be6 h3 2.Bf7 Be5 {-240}
>>>>>       516   0.000   0.00  4.  1.Be6 h3 2.Bf7 Be5 {-240}
>>>>>
>>>>>and so on ...
>>>>>
>>>>>One bug less :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>Dieter
>>>>
>>>>Hallo Dieter,
>>>>
>>>>Wenn sich Programme mit +3 vorne sehen, so werden sie nie ein Remisangebot
>>>>annehmen oder auch anbieten (es sei denn ein Schiedsrichter als Mensch macht
>>>>das). Auf Playchess kann man zB. einstellen dass bei 0.00 ein Remis angeboten
>>>>oder angenommen wird. Durch die hohe Bewertung aber, hat Shredder lange Zeit nur
>>>>herumgeschoben (also ohne richtige Gewinnabsicht), und hat dadurch nach Zeit
>>>>gewonnen. Daher ist es sinnvoller hier (trotz Remis) etwas Plus zu geben, weil
>>>>dadurch mehr gepunktet wird (wenn man eine sehr schnelle Hardware hat!).
>>>>
>>>>Viele machen das so auf playchess (ich habe es zu spĆ¼ren bekommen) weil sie
>>>>"sehr schnelle" Hardware haben, ja, und so gewinnen sie so auch Remisstellungen
>>>>mit realen 0.00 noch nach Zeit. Das finde ich unsportlich.
>>>
>>>
>>>Dieter,
>>>I'm astonished that you didn't get what Eduard meant to say. It was crystal
>>>clear. In my eyes Eduard proved that chess programs are better than humans
>>>because they are more stupid than humans.
>>
>>No
>>
>>I think that he meant to say that knowledge is not important when you can win
>>the game on time and in the example the black side won the game on time.
>>
>>
>> Einstein would have enjoyed that in
>>>chess. BTW I knew it already. For years now programmers are trying to get rid of
>>>all the unneccessary knowledge and they are relying on hardware speed alone.
>>
>>I do not think that it is the case and fruit got significant progress from
>>Fruit1.0 to Fruit2.1 mainly by improving it's evaluation.
>>
>>Uri
>
>And by that improvement the engine was wrong on the fact of a drawn position?
>Too bad that improvement IMO. ;)


Improvement in evaluation does not mean to evaluate correctly every position.

Uri



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