Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:31:12 01/13/06
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I have the idea that the core of this business is to see which sub-set of heuristic are relevant to such or such position. To know what knowledege is irrelevant is the key of real knowledge. It is clear that when, as a human player, you feel that attacking the king is the thing to do, due to the overall position, you make like Alexander Tolush did and any master does, that is to say, you look for tactical knock out. Tolush used a witty sentence: "I look for a way to sacrifice the queen; if I do not find one, then and only then I look for more quiescent moves...." If you smell a mate attack against black it would be silly to expend time considering the positional outcome of playing a3. But on the contrary, if you does not see nothing in the realm of king side attacks, the thing to do is becoming positional and not calculate sacrifices and wild attacks. Every seasoned chess player do more or less that. I suppose Rybka do that. I believe it has some kind of monitoring set of codes lines to decide if going for tactics of keeping positional. If not, perhaps it should has :-) My best fernando
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