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Subject: Re: Best positional program

Author: blass uri

Date: 20:47:51 04/06/99

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On April 06, 1999 at 15:30:41, Brian Smith wrote:

>
>>An interesting point of view.  In my opinion it is possible to determine the
>>strongest positional program to be the one that comes out top the most on
>>positional 'decisions'.  A lot of work has already been done in some circles in
>>this area, and although not particularly impressive compared with good human
>>chess players the 'knowledge programs' seem to do best (i.e. Hiarcs 7.01,
>>Rebel10c and MCP8...possibly in that order)
>
>
>What I don't understand is how CM, being a slow knowledge program, can be a
>bad(????: is it really?) positional program, but a tactical monster.

I think that it is not a bad positional program relative to other programs.

It sometimes finds tactics that other programs cannot find but it is also can be
the opposite.

I looked at the thinking lines of CM6000 and it is a stupid searcher.
It most of the time search irrelevant lines and it proves that there is much to
improve in the search algorithems of programs.

A slow searcher that know to search the right lines can be better than every
program in tactics.

Uri



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