Author: Mark Young
Date: 16:55:02 05/18/99
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On May 18, 1999 at 19:51:43, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 18, 1999 at 19:45:52, Mark Young wrote: >[snip] >>I know this, and is why I do not search this way. My point was he never asked, >>and the last time he still rejected hiarcs7, even though Hiarcs7 was the only >>program to find the BM, and no I did not give it the BM that time either. >I have no idea what you are talking about. Hiarcs is one of my favorite >programs and I use it all the time for C.A.P. However, if you specify a bm >beforehand, H7 quits looking. This often produces absurd results, as reflected >by the chosen pv. > >>The last time Dann rejected Hiarcs7 results because he did not like the score >>produced by Hiarcs7, even though its line of play was correct, and hiarcs7 was >>the only program to find the BM. >It has nothing to do with what tool is being used. If the ce is bad, then the >tool has not found the right move yet, only blundered onto it. This should be >immediately obvious because the tool itself does not like the choice given. > >>If someone can tell me the logic behind rejecting Hiarcs7 results, only because >>it can solve some postions in a negitive way, meaning seeing that all other move >>lose quickly thus finding the BM in a negitive way. >I don't reject Hiarcs. Also, it was not the only tool to find the answers. At >any rate, I already knew the answers, I wanted to see if a program could >legitimately find them. > >>To me both ways of finding a correct move have equal weight, seeing the one move >>that wins, or seeing that all other moves are clearly worse thus finding the >>best move. >Finding a best move without knowing why is nothing more than blundering onto it >by accident. If the ce is negative, it does not have the correct line of >reasoning yet. Incorrect logic and reasoning...Humans find moves this was all the time...its called positional play.
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