Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 06:37:26 10/13/04
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On October 13, 2004 at 09:14:56, Richard Pijl wrote: >On October 13, 2004 at 09:07:31, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: > >>On October 13, 2004 at 08:56:50, Richard Pijl wrote: >> >>>The Baron played a 2-game match of Fischer Random chess against Levon Aronian >>>this year. Obviously no opening book was used, and on request of the >>>organization the Baron also played without endgame database access. Both games >>>ended in a draw. The engine was at never in trouble. You can find the games at >>>http://www.chesstigers.de/alte_daten/chesstigers_alt/Tigers/cc/2004/e/default.htm >>>As a preparation the Baron played in a simultaneous event against our >>>club-champion. I removed the opening book access during that game. Due to the >>>unusual setup in the opening phase the human quickly lost track of the game and >>>resigned in 11 moves. Btw, this game was played _before_ I improved the piece >>>development evaluation in the Baron. >> >>Hi Richard, >> >>you are doing well! One of the intentions to my "fair" computerchess approach >>is that the programmers will be encouraged to improve their programs during the >>opening phase. Today programs only very rarely have the chance to show their >>abilities here, because of being overruled by the holy cow of opening library >>usage. Congratulation to your improved evaluation, its the right direction! > >It's simply a must-have when writing an FRC capable engine. There are no opening >books (yet). >And of course, when the opponent of the engine manages to find a hole in your >book, you should be able to survive on your own! >Adding endgame knowledge that is also covered by tablebases in the evaluation >function is done for another reason. During quiescense search no access to the >tablebases is possible as it slows the engine down too much. But the decision to >take the road to trading down to an endgame is often based on the knowledge in >the evaluation function. > >So I'm not at all against using methods like an opening book or endgame table >bases as they will help increasing the overall playing strength of the computer. >But an engine should suffer too much when it doesn't have access to them! Should _not_ suffer too much of course > >Richard. > >>Regards, Reinhard. >> >>>NN - The Baron 1.3.1 beta 4 >>>1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bf5 3.Bg2 e6 4.O-O Nf6 5.d3 Bc5 6.Nbd2 O-O 7. Re1? Bxf2 8.Kh1 Bxe1 >>>9.Qxe1 Nc6 10.e4 Nb4 11.Qd1? dxe4 0-1
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