Author: Bella Freud
Date: 15:42:41 11/11/99
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On November 11, 1999 at 04:45:50, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On November 11, 1999 at 03:37:10, Michael Neish wrote: > > >>This has led me to another question. Supposing you stubbornly insist on using >>alpha-beta, and not add any of the sophisticated embellishments that everyone >>talks about (killer move, null move, etc). How far can you expect to go just on >>programming positional sense alone? I ask this because it seems to me (as >>someone mentioned only last week on rgcc) that positional sense in a program is >>to a large extent only window dressing, and that the strength in a program lies >>mainly in its ability to search deep. From my meagre experience as a Chess >>programmer it seems to me that positional sense provides nothing more than >>general pointers to the program to play sensibly. > >If you don't refine the search, you'll get some nice evaluations of lost >positions. > >Positional terms can help you avoid voluntarily entering bad positions, but you >can lose tactically in positions that aren't bad, "Bruce Moreland" said: >and you can be forced into >positions you know are bad due to tactical mistakes. > How very, very, very true. Satirically, Bella >bruce
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