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Subject: Gandalf H, First Impressions

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 16:56:03 03/05/01


Hi:
I was not very satisfied with Gandalf f and g -and I had sometimes a somewhat
harsh discussion about that with Mogens- but the new update, "h", seems to be a
very different animal. I have not masive data to support my impression. Just
some games, but, as Thorsten, I believe that after many years playing programs a
chess computer nerd can get some accurate or at leats not very distorted
perception with very few elements in hand. Thorsten has said that he just need
some moves: I need some games.
To begin with, it seems to me that this update is more agressive and
enterprising, a lot more gifted with the so called "killer instinct". With
Gandalf F and G I felt I was playing a somewhat pasive program waiting for your
mistakes; H, on the contrary, goes for your king a lot quicker.
If I am right, this could be the result of a huge rewriting or just some touches
here and there capable of important different outputs. This last posibility is
not so imposible, as the case of Gambit Tiger shows. According to Christophe, he
just made some changes in the original code of Tiger to give his cousin a
greater inclination to attacking moves to the king, but nevertheless, as
everybody here knows, those changes produced a great differential in playing
style. I would like to know something about that from the authors of the program
or from Mogens, if he does not mind.
Fernando



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