Since programmers MIGHT have reached near maximum software efficiency especially in tactics, we could have a database of the most common closed positions of all time in order to learn how to deal with master draws.
Of course, another one could come up unexpectedly, but we could get 90 percent to 99 percent of the time figured out.
OK, so it is an imperfect science like solving chess but the rating of the software dramatically rises.
Jonathan Lee
Top 100 to 1000 closed positions of all time
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Re: Top 100 to 1000 closed positions of all time
do you have the vaguest idea of the number of such positions ? we're talking about more positions than atoms in the universe. dream on...jplchess wrote:Since programmers MIGHT have reached near maximum software efficiency especially in tactics, we could have a database of the most common closed positions of all time in order to learn how to deal with master draws.
Of course, another one could come up unexpectedly, but we could get 90 percent to 99 percent of the time figured out.
OK, so it is an imperfect science like solving chess but the rating of the software dramatically rises.
Jonathan Lee
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Re: Top 100 to 1000 closed positions of all time
Jonathan idea is not laughable at all. And it would be an interesting test set for sure!lucasart wrote:do you have the vaguest idea of the number of such positions ? we're talking about more positions than atoms in the universe. dream on...jplchess wrote:Since programmers MIGHT have reached near maximum software efficiency especially in tactics, we could have a database of the most common closed positions of all time in order to learn how to deal with master draws.
Of course, another one could come up unexpectedly, but we could get 90 percent to 99 percent of the time figured out.
OK, so it is an imperfect science like solving chess but the rating of the software dramatically rises.
Jonathan Lee
A good starting point would be to extract them from big databases like Chessbase's megabase. Although... how?
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Re: Top 100 to 1000 closed positions of all time
What would "dealing" with a closed position entail? What would you be trying to optimise?jplchess wrote:...we could have a database of the most common closed positions of all time in order to learn how to deal with master draws.
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Re: Top 100 to 1000 closed positions of all time
Ok, you can call it "majoritarianism". However, the number of draws and losses in man vs. machine matches would be cut dramatically. This should be at the very least the software efficiency of say Rybka 3 rating.
Just trying to help to create a database from these tactical monsters,
Jonathan Lee
Just trying to help to create a database from these tactical monsters,
Jonathan Lee