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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