Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 10:18:12 10/23/00
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On October 23, 2000 at 00:14:36, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 22, 2000 at 17:30:45, Bas Hamstra wrote: > >>On October 22, 2000 at 17:00:27, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On October 22, 2000 at 16:38:43, Bas Hamstra wrote: >>> >>>>On October 21, 2000 at 15:24:47, Uri Blass wrote: >>>> >>>>>[D]r1bqkb1r/pp1p3p/6p1/3P1pN1/3n3Q/8/PP3PPP/R1B1KB1R b KQkq - 0 1 >>>>>The test is to avoid Nc2+ without book. >>>>> >>>>>Jeroen claimed that the problem is that Tao had no book but I suspect that the >>>>>problem is the fact that Tao has no king attack evaluation and if you combine >>>>>with the fact that Tao is weak in tactics like most of the chess programs you >>>>>can get the blunder. >>>> >>>>Well no big deal you say so but... >>>> >>>>a) Tao was capable of beating Quest/Fritz on 2x slower hardware >>>>b) Tao-Xinix (round 6) was a tactical beauty. The King (the reference) could >>>>hardly have mated faster here. >>>> >>>>In all, I don't think it is THAT bad tactically... >>> >>>I did not say that it is bad in tactics relative to most of the programs and >>>most of the chess programs play Nc2+ without book. >>> >>>My Junior5.9 can avoid it at 4 hours/40 moves but cannot avoid it at 3 hours/40 >>>moves on my pentiumIII450 and Junior5.9 is better than most of the programs in >>>avoiding Nc2+. >>> >>>I can add that when I wrote that Tao has no king attack evaluation I meant to >>>say no big king attack evaluation(I think that Gambittiger and chesssystemtal >>>are the only programs with big king attack evaluation) >> >>Possibly, I can't really judge. But I would The King to that list. Why not start >>up a new sequence: AttackMaster 1000 in stead of CMxxxx ?! > > > >I agree that The King is also good at this, but it is not as speculative as >CSTal or Gambit Tiger. Hi Christophe, Congratulations with your victory. Tiger is indeed very strong! You manage to outsearch them all totally. Allowing just 2 draws in such a strong field can't be coincidence. Ciao! Bas.
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