Author: blass uri
Date: 10:16:29 05/20/00
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On May 20, 2000 at 10:54:42, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On May 20, 2000 at 10:28:48, Pierre Bourget wrote: > >>Read what they think here: >> >>http://www.zeitschriftschach.de/fritz-eng.htm#Khalifman >> >>Pierre > >Thank you, a very informative link. Nice to see that they both agree with my >opinions :o). > >Best wishes.. >Mogens Boris Galfend's opinion: main strenght of chess programs (Fritz, Junior etc) are outside the program itself. I disagree. The most simple programs can play well without book. TSCP that is a weak free program(the idea behind tscp is not to have a good program but to help beginners)has a better evaluation function in the opening relative to Deep Junior. I believe that the main reason that the programmers of Fritz and Junior did not care about adding knowledge in the opening(like not getting out with the queen) is the fact that they know from experience that they do not play without book. I think that forcing them to play without book is unfair because if they knew that they will be forced to play without book they would write their program in a different way. I believe that it is possible to take advantage of the weakness of Junior by getting it out of book early(there are many ways to do it) but unfortunately the opponents do not prepare against Junior. I hope that the opponents will prepare against Junior in the next tournament and will force Amir Ban to fix the problem. I do not like the fact that Junior does not know important things about the opening like not getting out with the queen early but I do not think it is fair to force Junior to play weak by creating new conditions that Junior is not ready for them. The programmers develop their program under some assumptions and it is simply unfair for them to change these assumptions. Uri
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