Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:59:17 12/28/99
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On December 28, 1999 at 16:44:43, Mike S. wrote:
>On December 28, 1999 at 12:14:14, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>(...) given the months of hard work we spend on chess programming, I'm a little
>>bit sorry that you only test them by playing yourself a few games against them.
>>
>>This is simply not serious.
>>(...) if I had myself written a post like yours, explaining how good a
>>program is by just playing myself against it, I would have been lynched
>>immediately.
>
>Although most of us fans seem to be comparing engins, testing with positions or
>analyzing games, I think that "simply" playing against the computer is one main
>purpose of a chess program. So I do not wonder that somebody builds his opinion
>by that and judges by his impressions from that, and doesn't care much about
>that XYZ has beaten ABC 23-19 etc.
>I think, to really succeed on the market today, a program should have something
>beyond pure strenght. For example, Fritz' win of the Frankfurt Masters has much
>more importance to me than a SSDF ranking. Chessmaster has a lot of things built
>around the engine which is fun to use, like the detailed "personalities" and
>Josh Waitzkin's Corner. Of course, it depends if the aim is more the "mass"
>market, or the computer chess enthusiast. For the latter, Shredder i.e. may be
>attractive.
>
>Christophe, we hear good news of Tiger scoring excellent against other programs,
>but what else will it have in the retail version? Has it a special style,
>something that would be recogniseable as "tiger-like" when you see a game
>without knowing who played it?
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl
I can hardly answer your question, because I don't work specifically on "playing
style". My goal is to make my program play the best move in any position (I will
probably never succeed, but trying is in this case more important than actually
achieving this result).
However many testers, including Thorsten, Shep, Raphaël Vasquez and others find
that Tiger has a special "style".
I guess each of them could describe it much much better that I could myself.
Christophe
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