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

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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