Luke skywalker has done it again.

Daniel Shawul · Post by **Daniel Shawul** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:15 pm

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8047

King's gambit "weakly solved" by Vas. Admit it. This guy definately knows what he does

Terry McCracken · Post by **Terry McCracken** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:27 pm

Daniel Shawul wrote:http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8047

King's gambit "weakly solved" by Vas. Admit it. This guy definately knows what he does

April Fool's A bit late.

JuLieN · Post by **JuLieN** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:34 pm

Terry McCracken wrote:
Daniel Shawul wrote:http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8047

King's gambit "weakly solved" by Vas. Admit it. This guy definately knows what he does
April Fool's A bit late.

Sadly this doesn't seem to be a joke...

Sadly because KG was my only answer against e5 :'(

Daniel Shawul · Post by **Daniel Shawul** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:34 pm

Nope. 3000 cores IBM cluster working on it for 4 months where all positions with +5.12 are discarded. With an assumption that those are practically won with more than 5-sigma (margin for a discovery I think). Quite an achievement IMO!

P.S: I was actually looking for April Fools announcement when I found that. This is definately real.

Jimmy Huggins · Post by **Jimmy Huggins** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:42 pm

Someone should poll this!! To me I don't think it is real. If not, he picked a bad time to reveal it.

Daniel Shawul · Post by **Daniel Shawul** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:46 pm

Ofcourse vas haters will call BS without bothering to read what is claimed

Don · Post by **Don** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:37 pm

Daniel Shawul wrote:http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8047

King's gambit "weakly solved" by Vas. Admit it. This guy definately knows what he does

I'm embarrassed for Chessbase.

Albert Silver · Post by **Albert Silver** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:39 pm

Terry McCracken wrote:
Daniel Shawul wrote:http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8047

King's gambit "weakly solved" by Vas. Admit it. This guy definately knows what he does
April Fool's A bit late.

Depends on the place.

gerold · Post by **gerold** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:56 pm

Daniel Shawul wrote:http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8047

King's gambit "weakly solved" by Vas. Admit it. This guy definately knows what he does

Solved is the wrong word. Maybe the best move the computer could come up with is more like it.

rbarreira · Post by **rbarreira** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:30 pm

Daniel Shawul wrote:Nope. 3000 cores IBM cluster working on it for 4 months where all positions with +5.12 are discarded. With an assumption that those are practically won with more than 5-sigma (margin for a discovery I think). Quite an achievement IMO!

I don't understand that part of the article... Look at this:

but if Rybka is displaying +5.12 or more the outcome is 99.99999999% secure. That is approximately the confidence number we give to our King's Gambit results: 99.99999999%.

If the probability of a 5.12 score being a win is 99.99999999%, shouldn't the full calculation (which surely involves a huge amount of >=5.12 scores) have a much smaller probabilty of being correct? And yet he claims the same probability?

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