Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:39:38 08/20/03
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On August 20, 2003 at 16:23:41, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On August 20, 2003 at 15:49:31, Sandro Necchi wrote: > >>I mean that we lost the game in the endgame because we did not play the opening >>phase in the right way and went in an inferior position to win the game. >>Well, we did get a draw position, but we need to win, not to draw. > >Yes, you got a draw position. However you last sentence may also be misleading, >and in your words (your answer to Peter): "About this game this is a superficial >analysis." if considered in context with the following. First, it may imply, >that Shredder used some big contempt factor (which from my observation of >Shredder's scores during the game was not the case). It is possible to play for a win by different means like antisymmetric evaluation. Contempt factor is only one way to tell a program not to play for a draw and it only helps to avoid unnecessary repetitions(it cannot help to avoid positions that there is no practical chance to win like KRPP vs KRPP when the pawns are on the same side. Uri
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