Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:43:54 07/15/00
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On July 15, 2000 at 17:35:32, blass uri wrote: [snip] >Did these GM's play in the tournaments that Junior played? Not that I know of. [snip] >I think that it is better to do a program that knows to play closed positions >and not a program that does not let the opponent to close the position. > >I know that Junior does not try to avoid closing the position but try to play >the best move. I think this is the most beautiful solution. Eventually that strategy will work anyway. The reason blockades work against computers is that it takes a lot of moves to make something happen. That pushes the horizon out a few plies and blinds the computers. But give the machines a few more plies and they can see the goals again. But if you want to win *right now* breaking the formation is probably the easiest way to do it (or -- rather preventing the formation from occurring). This is not such an easy thing to do, either. If you do it at a cost of two or three pawns, the GM's will surely beat them over the head with the material.
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