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Subject: Re: Conspiracy -- conshmiracy

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 18:41:37 01/19/00

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On January 19, 2000 at 18:34:52, blass uri wrote:

>On January 19, 2000 at 17:52:24, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 19, 2000 at 17:38:22, Amir Ban wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>>        Ok, which moves can't be reproduced?  And what exactly are the
>>>>conditions, any program with any settings, or what?
>>>>
>>>>                             James B. Shearer
>>>
>>>Move 36 (axb5) of game 2. This move has been discussed and analyzed here ad
>>>nauseam, on at least 3 occasions so far.
>>
>>Ah, the smoking gun!
>>;-)
>>
>>Now, should it be surprising that a machine which can solve all of the NOLOT
>>problems except 3,6,9 can solve another position which PC's seem to have trouble
>>with?
>
>The question is if the move of deeper blue was the right move.
>It is not clear that 36.axb5 was the right move.
>
>If it is not the right move then the expression solve for finding axb5 is not
>the right expression.
>
>It is possible that it found this move because of a bug because I saw no tree
>that prove to computers that axb5 is the right move.
>
>The case with the nolot positions is different because I think that there is a
>tree to prove the solutions(it is easy for programs to see that playing moves
>not in the tree is bad).
>
>Uri

Some of them are just flat out correct.  There might be some that are more
positional than you'd like, but several of them are positions you search on for
a long time and eventually it's +4.  Some of the ECM positions may be as hard,
but these are good and hard.

bruce



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