Author: Alessio Iacovoni
Date: 14:26:27 08/26/98
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On August 26, 1998 at 17:08:10, Ilya P. Kozachenko wrote: > >On August 26, 1998 at 16:07:58, Alessio Iacovoni wrote: > >>>Why don't you just explain your idea here? If it survives the critiques, you >>>will have gained something of more value than the small sum of money you are >>>seeking, and if your idea has weaknesses, you would learn about them. >> >>Ok. Here it is... >> >>Now, first some facts: >> >>1. When playing against a chessmachine the "human" player adopts certain >>strategies that it feels will make the "machine" loose... >> >>For example: >> >>(a) let it go out of it's opening book in the very first stage of the fight (as >>Kasparov did at least in one game aginst deep blue if i dont remember wrong). >>(b) play closed games >>(c) exchange as many pieces as possible >>(d) play "calm" and "positional" >>(e) attempt an attack on the computer's castled king with a piece sacrifice >>(strange but many programs will fall in for it!!) - opening lines and exposing >>his majesty. >>(f) make positional sacrifices (i.e. "real" ones) >> >>So basically it seems that the way the program is beaten is through positional >>knowledge and a clever use of sacrifices etc etc.. i.e. intelligence.. >> >>But you know all of this.. the solution: have 2 engines play the same game: >> >>a tactically strong one i.e. Fritz >>and a positionally "knowledge based one" >> >>The tactical engine would be in control all of the time, but all of the moves >>would be filted by the "positional one" in such a way as to avoid those >>"bluders" which are typical of programs. The filtering could be weighted in >>suych a way as to ovveride the positional engine filtering if a very strong >>tactical combination is found and viceversa. etc etc.. > >Are you a joker or smth else ? >I posted such idea a week ago... and it was quite discussed >read about this, please No i didn't. I dont think i was even in this list at that time but i would be very interested to read the answers and opinions about it. Frita zlready allows for use of more than one engine.. implementing it would be rather easy i guess on that platform.
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