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And by the way...

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 25 December 2014, at 3:59 a.m.

In Response To: And by the way... (Jake Jacobs)

I find that it's almost impossible to predict what play I would make over the board when there's any complexity involved. If I play a match against the computer, save it, wait long enough to forget the details, and then review the match play-by-play, coming up with "my play" before I look at what I actually played, I find that for about half of the complicated decisions, "my play" differs from the play I made OTB. Obviously I have no incentive to be dishonest in such a situation (what would that even mean?) yet I'm not accurately predicting my own play.

For this reason, I don't really see the point of posting a position here and asking people to be "honest." Is it to console yourself that other people would make the same mistake you did? Seeking that type of reassurance seems silly to me. Is it to implicitly accuse BGO readers of "cheating" in some way when they post here? It also seems silly to me to police others that way. The most one can hope for by posting a position is to provide some entertainment and perhaps elicit a few just-so stories for the bot play that one might not have invented on one's own, that one can then go back and test in the laboratory. For that, no "honesty" is required.

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