On Sep 26, 9:03 am, raylopez99 wrote:
On Sep 26, 12:37 am, help bot wrote:

But that aside, the superior tactician will often prevail.
(This is why I am ...so far... undefeated at ChessWorld.)

And that's why Crafty can rate past champions according to how few
tactical mistakes (in all lines) they make, as per our earlier thread
Bot. Glad you agree with me. You sure were unreasonable in that
thread. ;-)


That is quite a L-E-A-P! I agree that Crafty can rate
past champions based on tactical mistakes, but where
we part is in your blind assumption that Crafty's evals
are sufficiently accurate to do the job in a reasonable
amount of time. Hey, if somebody has let's say the
patience to let her rip for 12 hours per move on those
games, maybe we can come to terms; yet even then,
there are serious problems with such a narrowly
focused approach. One example is the fact that we
chess geniuses (as the highest-rated player in the
world -- ahem, on GetClub that is -- I think I can speak
for the others here) often *deliberately* make inferior
moves, for reasons a computer could never even begin
to comprehend. Penalizing players for deliberately not
playing like a machine is, well, just stupid; the thinking
is that they were not good enough to find the optimal
moves, but in fact they were doing something else
besides looking for that sort of optimality.


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