Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 15:32:31 02/15/06
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On February 15, 2006 at 17:06:26, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >Imagine you show a position to two chess players. > >The first, a low-rated player, takes twenty minutes to enumerate all sorts of >bugus and irrelevant nonsense about what might happen or what both sides should >do. > >The second, an experienced, high-rated player, looks for half a minute and >simply says: "white should mobilize his pawn majority here". > >Who gave the more knowledgeable assessment? > >Vas :) At first you spoke of more knowledge which I see different to more knowledgeable, because this is a personal quality while the first is more a quantitative question. So to your actual question a GM sure is more knowledgeable but a IM could well have much more knowledge, but which is either not relevant in the concrete position or has a lower priority or takes him too much time or where his calculations are too slow or his experience from practical play is worse. Insofar your first differentiation wasnt good enough. - However, Vas, let's stick through the fog: you know better than me that the verdict "pawn majority" and NOT this or that in a concrete situation is no doubt a question of calculation and then for a GM a question of experience too, I mean experience from practical play. I dont see yet how you want to adopt that detail with sufficient perfection into chess machines with the actually available depth. What I mean is that perhaps you are successful as long as you can better focus on such a question in advance and hence be better prepared while your opponents are unaware, as the results seem to indicate. In your favor I hope you have some other aspects in your Rybka than "just" this pawn advancing thing. But then I didnt want to be indiscrete. I take for sure that you go for Torino. All the best and thanks so far. Rolf
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