Comments on: Siegbert Tarrasch plays a great move

By: TimT

TimT — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:34:33 +0000

That’s the classic game they have in my family’s edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, though less for this move than what comes before it (ie, the demonstration of the classical principles of development and centralisation.)

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:01:01 +0000

And if you think about the move, most variants end up in the immortal game format – which is to say with the winner’s remaining pieces all in the mate of the enemy king.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:47:38 +0000

Patrick;

I would depend on the heuristic adopted by the chess-playing engine. Generally most such engines do the alpha-beta pruning step starting with captures, then moves etc (this is an example).

If the brilliant move is too far down the list, it might never get evaluated at all.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:41:10 +0000

I wonder, is this just the kind of move that we are amazed by but that a computer would always see?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:40:07 +0000

I wonder, do I give myself net credit for thinking of it, or net dunce’s hats for writing it off almost as quickly? Surely the latter, unfortunately :(

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:34:01 +0000

So who’s worked out the move without looking. I certainly didn’t. It’s a rip snorter.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:56:09 +0000

All chessboards now give me flashbacks to my AI exam and terms like alpha-beta pruning, quiescence and horizon problems.