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He's just referring to the fact that after game is over you can let your program stew on any given move for a weekend or more before reporting back on how stron
by Nomentatus 4y ago
He's just referring to the fact that after game is over you can let your program stew on any given move for a weekend or more before reporting back on how strong it was or wasn't.
- School-Cotton 4y agoBut standard programs like Stockfish won’t tell you how strong a move was. They’ll just tell you how much it changes the evaluation. E.g. if you initiate a queen trade in a straightforward position, on the next move I have to take back my queen; any other move will show a gigantic evaluation drop by the engine. But that doesn’t mean it’s a particular strong move — even an absolute beginner will play it. Thus it’s of no value for determining whether the person who played it is cheating. It’s entirely possible that chess.com has access to more sophisticated software that can estimate the strength of players (they sort of allude to this with their “strength score” metric) but AFAIK it’s not publicly available and not clear how it works, or whether it can evaluate individual moves as opposed to the game as a whole.
- Nomentatus 4y agoI think it's more a question of whether, given more time to calculate, the software changes it's choice of move to something else.