Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 14:37:48 05/18/00
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On May 18, 2000 at 13:45:08, Robin Smith wrote: >>>On May 17, 2000 at 23:33:21, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>most Gambit benefit programs most of the time. > >I don't think this is true. Open positions favor programs, but gambits don't >necesarily favor programs. Most programs don't avoid exchanges when down >material. They also usually avoid additional sacrifices of material to keep the >initiative. They also don't understand positional gambits. Unless the program >SEES compenstation for the material sacrificed it will likely not play the >gambit well. Just playing any old gambit won't do. I did not meant to say Gambit in the same sense of an Opening gambit, what I meant to say is that if the programmer write a subroutine which enable the program to detect when the position is locked in the middlegame which will trigger it to sacrifice a pawn in order to open up the position in order for the program to excel tactically. Jorge Pichard
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