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Subject: Re: 3 trouble-maker positions [discussed previously] Expert opinions needed

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:16:35 05/18/99

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On May 18, 1999 at 19:55:02, Mark Young wrote:
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>Incorrect logic and reasoning...Humans find moves this was all the time...its
>called positional play.
Of coures.  And when they do find it, they know it is a good move.  They would
not say, "Now I am down 1.5 pawns to my opponent."

In the same way, a chess program that thinks it is behind has not found the
right move yet.

If you don't put down a bm for H7 to look for, it does an excellent job.  If you
do put one down it does some bad things that make for crappy data.  That was my
point, which you have failed to grasp.

When you put down a bm and H7 immediately stops, it is not because of some
positional brilliancy.  It is because it happened, at that iteration, to look
better than the other moves.  Yet if the eval is still negative, it does not
know why the move was chosen.  It just stopped.




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