Author: Peter Berger
Date: 06:23:15 08/28/05
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Thanks for your very nice tournament report. It's nice to hear that you go commercial although it will be hard to get used to this gay teddy ;) . Joking aside. --- Concerning "sceptical programs" and my alleged quote ( that I don't remember just like that ;) ) . I don't know how useful that term is ( and I am sceptical about it :) ) , but there is something serious about it. The major contender in this group is certainly Fruit right now. Professionals have become very speculative about material in recent years, and I think they might have overdone it at times. Zappa is not very sceptical either. I am currently playing a big series of games between Fruit and Junior for fun who play at nearly the exact same level, but reach their aims in very different ways. Speculative vs sceptical is a term that fits quite well IMHO. Very fascinating games btw, I'll probably post some later. -- The "Strategy of Attack" ( trademark Futé and Jean-Louis Boussin) . Yes, this one was a bit funny, but maybe there should be at least a little explanation on what it is about. I'll try. From what I understood Futé does some complicated static evaluation at the root position (pre-processing) to guide the search and trigger some search extensions (his strategies). So far there were only two implemented in the program, the "strategy of attack" and the "strategy of defense" ( that was not really working well yet according to the author). Usually Futé's search lacked some depth so that it was outsearched quite often in games. Now when the "Strategy of Attack" kicked in ( as far as I understood triggered by the number of pieces directed against the opponent's king mainly) , Futé managed to search some lines a lot deeper. This is what happened in the Zappa game for all I know. The vagueness is not due to lack of explanations by Futé's author but more by my ignorance. *No one* could complain about Jean-Louis Boussin not talking and explaining enough ;) ) . In practice that led to the Futé's author looking at his screen and always hoping that at some point the "strategy of attack" would kick in . E.g. it happened once in the game Crafty-Futé - unfortunately in a position where there was already a mate in 3 against Futé . Peter
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