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Subject: Re: Gandalf H, First Impressions

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 21:07:13 03/05/01

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On March 05, 2001 at 19:56:03, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>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.

yes, this is true, u don't need loads of games, u can just tell and fell the
moves that the program makes

>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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