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Subject: Re: What happened?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:09:05 07/15/00

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On July 15, 2000 at 13:52:39, blass uri wrote:

>On July 15, 2000 at 13:16:45, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>
>>On July 15, 2000 at 11:43:30, Daniel Chancey wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Junior made several mistakes:
>>
>>1. Closing the position
>>2. Not playing Bh6 to exchange the black bishop
>>3. The useless and time consuming bishop maneuver Bg5-e3-f4?
>>4. Castling long, right into the black attack
>>5. The lemon a2-a3??, which gives Black a nice target
>>
>>After 15 moves White was already desperate. You know, in these positions the
>>strongest programs simply look silly, using a 4,5 GHz processor or not! The
>>point is that calculating gets you nowhere in closed positions. Even a 5000 GHz
>>processor wil not prevent moves like a2-a3? Because this move will not lose
>>within the next 30 plies.
>>
>>It seems that programmers should have 2 versions of their program:
>>
>>1. A fast one to play other chess programs
>>2. A much slower one with a lot more chess knowledge, that can prevent
>>   games like against Kramnik and Piket.
>
>I think that a better idea is to do only one slow program that can win other
>programs by king attacks.
>
>Chess system tal often wins other programs by king attacks but the programmer
>stopped to develop this program.
>
>You can download the games of the millenium tournament and see games that system
>tal wins by king attack
>
>see http://homepages.compuserve.de/hjsxy/page4.html
>
>Uri


Just don't conclude that it wins most of the games it plays...



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