Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:22:25 02/09/00
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On February 09, 2000 at 06:33:49, Côme wrote: >On February 08, 2000 at 17:54:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 08, 2000 at 17:38:24, Colin Frayn wrote: >> >>>On February 08, 2000 at 16:33:52, Michael de la Maza wrote: >>> >>>>Earlier today I recorded a 20-25 minute interview with Professor Robert Hyatt. >>>>You can listen to the interview by: >>><snip> >>> >>>Just listened to it - very interesting. >>> >>>Does anyone seriously believe what he said about computers not playing better >>>with increased ply, or at least asymptotically slowing down? I have 600 games >>>against Crafty which prove the opposite. >> >>I didn't say that. I said "there is plenty of evidence that says that an >>additional ply is _always_ good." Either you misunderstood, or I did a >>horrible job of answering that question. I will try to listen to it tonite >>after class. But hopefully _everyone_ knows what I think about one more >>ply. IE Crafty goes deep... >> >> >> >> >>> >>>I never thought about that connected passed pawns thing either. Damn that's >>>obvious. >> >>Takes a GM to point out the obvious sometimes. I knew about it as I play that >>way. But I never thought about it from a computer evaluation point of view >>until Roman pointed out that I had lost three games out of 10 the same way >>vs a GM on ICC. A critical oversight. >> >> >> >>> >>>Thanks for the advice, Prof. Hyatt. That world title's mine next time :) >>>*grin* >>> >>>Cheers, >>>Colin >> >>Exactly how are you going to arrange for that "good luck" factor you need so >>badly? :) > >Hello Bob, >Congratulation for the fist place of ICC tournament. >But why do you speak so fast, what you say seem very interesting but I have >understood nothing:-((( >Best Regards >Alexandre Côme I was initially told that we were going to try to squeeze this into 10-15 minutes. He gave me a list of questions very quickly, asked "do any of those need to be discarded, or are there any you want to add?" I said "that list is fine, let's go." Unfortunately, I had to increase the speed to 9600 baud from my normal 2400 baud, to try and squeeze everything in. Sorry it sounded 'rushed' but it really was rushed. :)
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