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

Author: Francis Monkman

Date: 01:58:51 05/15/99

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On May 15, 1999 at 00:51:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:


>That's not my point.  I have watched LGG play many games on ICC.  I have seen
>it have an eval of +1.5 when it is losing, or +1.5 when material is dead even
>and it has no huge positional edge.  So what is convincing about an eval of
>+.23? It obviously doesn't see that this is 'winning'.  Which means it it
>playing that move for some "other" reason.  Most likely totally unrelated
>to what happens assuming this is a tactical win...

I disagree, and LGG's analysis line bears me out. I quite agree that LGG appears
to get
unreasonably optimistic about its chances without due cause, but this is a clear
case of
its finding what *I believe* to be the winning line (and not, I assure you Bob,
played 'randomly'), for reasons far from 'unrelated' to that line, (and for that
reason, its actual
assessment at such an early stage of the search is far less important than that
it finds
the move). I assure you, I have no wish to waste anyone's time, or to put up
material that
'just happened to work' -- in fact I'm putting these up to be 'knocked down', if
that turns out
to be possible. I'll post the GMs' verdict(s) as soon as I get them.

All best
Francis



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