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Subject: Re: Chandler, I Showed Hyatt's Message, This isn't Pick a Card, Any Card

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:37:13 12/04/05

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On December 04, 2005 at 03:00:01, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On December 04, 2005 at 00:21:59, chandler yergin wrote:
>
>>On December 04, 2005 at 00:05:12, Terry McCracken wrote:
>>
>>>On December 03, 2005 at 23:48:36, chandler yergin wrote:
>>>
>>>>Ever Scroll a PV and see it change it's Eval over time?
>>>>If yes, then that ends the discussion.
>>>
>>>Irrelevant.
>>Tell that to Hyatt!
>
>Why? Your post is jibberish. Did Dr. Robert Hyatt spew nonsense, as you seem to
>suggest? No!
>
>Chan wake up, you're arguing with the pros, you're not even a novice in chess
>progamming.
>
>Why don't you listen to the best in the field? The best post here, with a few
>exceptions. You're an orderly whose disorderly, telling neurologists how to do a
>brain transplant!
>
>Terry

I don't know why this is continuing.  Here is a simple example.

Let's do _just_ a 5 ply search, no more.  And in that search, we find a forced
mate in 3.  That is, a move for white, a move for black, a move for white, a
move for black, a move for white, and now white has no legal moves and is in
check.  We return "mate in 3".

Now exactly _how_ can we do a 6 ply search and find that the mate in 3 was
wrong, that there is really a mate in 4 or more moves and not 3?  If the mate in
3 is there at depth=5, it is there at depth=6, 7, 8, 9, ... N, and will _never_
go away, if it is a real forced mate.  If it isn't a real forced mate, the
search has a bug because returning mate in 3 is an absolute, not an
approximation.

Surely this has been explained enough times that we can move on to something
more interesting?




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