Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:23:42 07/15/00
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On July 15, 2000 at 18:38:56, blass uri wrote: >On July 15, 2000 at 18:09:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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... > >It did not win most of the games but it won some games and got 9.5 out of 15 >that gave it first place with some other programs. > >Uri In _one_ tournament.
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