Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 04:54:00 10/04/00
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On October 03, 2000 at 18:18:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 03, 2000 at 12:34:11, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On October 03, 2000 at 11:58:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On October 02, 2000 at 13:54:23, Mike Adams wrote: >>> >>>>The move that my freind said crafty considered was the pawn takes knight move >>>>toward the end. Knight takes bishop earlier wreked the positon and i dont think >>>>pulsar would get itself into that kind of postion again with the current >>>>evaluate. >>> >>> >>>taking the knight isn't particularly bad. NxB opens a file against your own >>>king. PxN (I assume that is the knight you are talking about taking) is a >>>reasonable move for white. He wants that open file. >> >>Mike did not mean to that knight. >> >>He meant to taking the knight by gxf3 in the following line >> >>[D]r1bq1rk1/ppp2p2/2n4p/3pP1pn/3P4/2P2NB1/P1P1B1PP/R2QK2R b KQ - 0 14 >> >>Nxg3 hxg3 g4???? Qd2 gxf3???? >> >>avoiding gxf3 is a simple tactics. >>Crafty17.11 can see at depth 7 that gxf3 is bad. >> >>The bigger problem is to avoid g4 and crafty17.11 needs depth 9 for it. >> >>Fritz5.32 can avoid gxf3 at depth 5 and it can avoid g4 also at depth 5. >> >>Hiarcs4 can avoid gxf3 at depth 3. >>Faile 1.4.4 can avoid gxf3 at depth 6. >>CometB02 can avoid gxf3 at depth 5. >> >>All these programs that are not the best programs need few seconds or less than >>1 second on a slow hardware to avoid gxf3. >> >>I think that you need to improve the tactical ability of your program and >>working on positional knowledge is less important. >> >>Chess is a tactical game. >> >>Uri > > >Yes... but the tactical ability improves automatically. You should try it on >my quad xeon. It fries tactical things there. :) Crafty is a good program, but perhaps the way you should be looking at this is maybe you would write a better program if you were running on slower hardware. Fast hardware can cover up a lot of deficiencies of a program as you have essentially pointed out.
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