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Subject: Re: Selling Idea to make a chessprogram. Ok.. here it is the answer..

Author: Ilya P. Kozachenko

Date: 01:58:27 08/27/98

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On August 26, 1998 at 22:24:33, Don Dailey wrote:

>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
>
>I never saw this or any of the discussion.  Did you post it on this
>group?  I sometimes skip through posts and must have missed it this
>way.  What was the subject headings?
>
>- Don

Hmmm...  Click  "Archive Index" on main CCC page...
Take archives for 3-4 August '98 and November '97
That's all. Quite simple



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