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Subject: Re: a position when crafty is better than deeper blue

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:12:36 01/17/00

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On January 17, 2000 at 08:24:29, Amir Ban wrote:

>On January 17, 2000 at 07:17:41, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>On January 17, 2000 at 06:32:48, blass uri wrote:
>>>
>>>It increases the impression of most of the chess players that deeper blue was
>>>better in tactics but had not better positional understanding than the
>>>microcomputers.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Unfortunately there are NO real tactical brilliances in these 6 games and
>>we cannot compare micros to DB. Or is there?
>>
>>Jouni
>
>So far the best example I found is 40... Bc7 in the 3rd game. DB switched to it
>in 83 seconds.
>
>Deep Blue prefered Bc7 with a score of +0.10 when the alternative dropped to a
>0.00 score. So adopting Bc7 depended on evaluating it as a slight plus (not
>logically, because black is slightly behind after returning the pawn, and next
>move DB's score drops to minus right away. DB seems to have inconsistent
>evaluation here).
>
>In order not to make this test dependent on fine points of evaluation, the
>question should not be "do you find Bc7 ?", but "Do you evaluate do-nothing
>moves as draw or worse ?"
>
>Amir

Darkthought plays Bc7 too without any problems.



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