Re:Positions chess engines don't understand
by tialaramex on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:45PM
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In poker this approach can cost you a lot of money. "I will try to force the player into those positions" actually means you're now doing things that aren't optimal for you, based on a possibly false assumption about the world.
I suspect but can't prove that for the positions we're talking about here (opponent's pawn should be promoted, but promoting to a Queen is terrible) in Chess you're putting yourself in a very similar situation, ie. to pull this off you're obliged to deviate so far from good strategy that you invariably lose anyway.
For chess engines playing each other we already know it doesn't matter because the chess engines play far more games than it would take to notice, some of them have exactly this "weakness" and others do not, and of course for chess engines playing humans it's a joke, the humans aren't competitive in that scenario.
I suspect but can't prove that for the positions we're talking about here (opponent's pawn should be promoted, but promoting to a Queen is terrible) in Chess you're putting yourself in a very similar situation, ie. to pull this off you're obliged to deviate so far from good strategy that you invariably lose anyway.
For chess engines playing each other we already know it doesn't matter because the chess engines play far more games than it would take to notice, some of them have exactly this "weakness" and others do not, and of course for chess engines playing humans it's a joke, the humans aren't competitive in that scenario.