Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Another nice position, and LGG 2.0 gets it (not Crafty 16.6 or CSTal II)

Author: Francis Monkman

Date: 14:33:38 05/14/99

Go up one level in this thread



On May 14, 1999 at 16:54:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Just looking at what you posted, this appears to be a case of a program
>coming up with a random move for the wrong reason.  IE the eval of +.23 is
>not exactly 'winning'.  And while the moves from CSTal/Crafty might not win
>either, what makes Rad1 a winner?  And if it does, do you _really_ want a
>program that will play such a move without having a clue why it is playing
>it?

Sorry Bob, but this is specious. LGG obviously has a good 'clue' as to the
winning line.
>
>My opinion is that there are probably several reasonable moves here, none are
>outright winning or losing...

You'll appreciate I did some extensive analysis on this, but I'll pass it on to
those
 better qualified than I, as you insist. (If anyone still has any doubts about
the last one
I posted, it was deemed an outright winner by two top GMs.)

Francis



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.