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Subject: Re: Rename Gothic Chess to Resonance Chess or [CheSs]

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 10:54:18 01/10/04

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On January 10, 2004 at 02:22:58, Ed Trice wrote:

>
>>Here's an interesting question for you Ed; since Gothic Vortex 1.0 was released,
>>it has been playing from the Capablanca starting position (one game from the
>>starting position, all others from a simple opening), against itself, 3 minutes
>>per move.  Wanna just take a wild guess how many games white is up?
>>
>>None.
>>
>>There is absolutely nothing wrong with Capablanca's game.  Well, except for the
>>simple fact you couldn't patent it.
>
>I did not want to patent it. There are many things wrong with Capablanca's
>setup.
>
>The flaws are strategical in nature.
>
>I can beat Gothic Vortex every single game if I have white in a Capblanca setup.

Assuming that you are correct...

Any guess as to how many plies an engine would need to see and capitalize on
these flaws?

Or is that fact that Vortex can't see them due to obvious problems with the
evaluation function?

Could addressing this lead to improvements in your engine?



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