Author: Jouni Uski
Date: 22:39:32 01/17/00
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On January 17, 2000 at 10:12:36, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. Also Fritz4 finds it fast! Jouni
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