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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