Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 12:24:03 04/06/01
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On April 06, 2001 at 14:12:37, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >>if you have 2 similar programs, and the one is more agressive, >>the more aggressive will IMO make a better score over all. >Not necessarily. In case the attack is unsound, then the attacker will be >punished. but the program (gambit-tiger1) sees that the attack is unsound. it only plays attacks that are not unsound. or nearly not unsound. :-)) it has the same strength in tactics than rebel-tiger13 has, and the same search depth. so it will play a very clever move, not a very easy unsound and bad move. the move is nearly sound. only when you search deeper than gambit-tiger, you maybe see that it is not sound. but since few programs search that deep, they cannot refute the moves. that is the trick. bring your opponent into critical decision situations, and the plan behind the move should be deeper than the horizont of your opponent. >It's not just SOMETHING. Life's not that easy. You have to do a reasonable >thing. >In some cases it might be better to wait for a mistake of the opponent than >starting an unsound attack. right. it must be something. therefore you need special knowledge and special search-extension methods. >I'm speaking very generally here (not about Gambit Tiger who has proven several >times the success of its play). right. and it plays stronger than rebel-tiger13 IMO although the engines are very similar. >Uli
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