[computer-go] New version of Crazy Stone
Chrilly
c.donninger at wavenet.at
Sun Jun 4 11:23:09 PDT 2006
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> By the way, what do you consider a "blunder"?
The "Hydra twin towers" show up on the screen. To be more precise, the eval
jumps at least by 1 pawn. There can be of course blunders which are to
complicated to be detected by Hydra. And there can be brilliant moves which
make the Hydra eval jump for the wrong reason. But so far the 1 pawn jump
was sufficient to win the game.
Blunders are highly correlated. The mean-distance to the next blunder is 2
moves, the maximum is 5 moves. Shortly after the first jump (and the
corresponding bar on the ChessBase-GUI) the next higher bar is showing up.
The Hydra teams calls this the " Hydra twin-towers".
I have a regular column in the German chess magazine "Kaissiber". One column
deals how God would play chess. The thesis is: He plays much better - harder
for the human - than a 32-stone database. He would set up traps. I concluded
this from the story of Adam and Eve. The tree in the middle of paradise with
the forbidden apple was clearly a trap. If Eva had the knowledge of God, she
would have never eaten the apple and hence God would have never tested her
in this way.
There is the story, that Steinitz wanted to play a pawn-handicap match
against God (with Steinitz having one pawn less!). I think God accepted this
offer, but due to his bad experience at his last visit he insisted on a
home-match. Steinitz soon afterwards started the journey to Gods tournament
hall.
According to the Vienneses chess-historican Michael Ehn there is no
historical evidence for the Steinitz proposal. Its one of the many myths in
chess-history.
Chrilly
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