Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:34:22 02/19/01
Go up one level in this thread
On February 19, 2001 at 11:17:52, Chuck wrote: >On February 19, 2001 at 11:12:37, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On February 19, 2001 at 07:44:30, John Wentworth wrote: >> >>>This is just an observance and may be completely wrong, but it seems that when a >>>program castles Queen side his chances of losing go up by a lot. Every time I >>>see a program do this, I say to myself he's going to lose and I bet more than >>>60% of the time he does. This may be a problem with humans vs humans as well, I >>>don't know. Anyone else notice this? >> >> >>I think you are right. >> >> >> Christophe > >I wonder if this a problem with queen-side castling or castling opposite (one >side castled short, one castled long)? > >Chuck It is a problem of the following: 1. not recognizing king safety and the danger of a pawn storm until it is too late; 2. not knowing how to attack the opponent, because when you castle to opposite sides, it becomes a race to see who draws the first blood. If you don't know how to break the position open (and I have not seen any programs do this very well) then while the program fiddles, Rome burns. 3. castling opposite is a direct challenge. Quite often the human will have his pieces positioned to support his attack, while the program's pieces are positions improperly to attack or defend. The time lost repositioning them leads to trouble.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.