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

Author: Mark Young

Date: 19:48:57 05/18/99

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On May 18, 1999 at 22:25:19, Dann Corbit wrote:

>If there is any sort of logical reason for the choice other than:
>"I will stop as soon as move 'x' looks best regardless of evaluation and time
>remaining" I would accept it as a valid choice.  For instance, it might use a
>win/loss/draw statistic from a database or it might use an actual positional
>calculation of some sort to arrive at a sensible move.  These are valid reasons
>for picking a move.  The way that H7 picks a move when you ask it to hunt for a
>best move is bad for my purposes.  I need a valid pv so that I could actually
>perform the needed sequence if called upon to do so.  This is especially true
>since at least 25% of test suite answers are just plain wrong and I want to find
>the right answer (if such exists and can be found).
>
>If you just want to "score the epd suite" as quickly as possible, then the
>method H7 has chosen is optimal.

Everyone that has Hiarcs7 knows it stops when you run a epd with the BM, but
what does this have to do with the positions I ran, and have run. I don't use
the BM. So why is this topic even in this thread. It finds the correct move
without the BM.



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