Author: Detlef Pordzik
Date: 19:18:30 01/05/98
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Well - unfortunately, because of being highly involved with my company, I haven't got the free time I used to have, figuring out the last dot of my favoured program' abilities. The Spassky style gives the 2.54a de Koning engine -maybe exeptionally- I don't know, a benefit because of weighting in majority center control, agility very high and piece balance a little lower, more weight towards offending which leads in total to a quite attractive gameplay " full of life " - that seems to suit escpecially this engine very well. I know all these ( Austrian ) stonewall tricks - the " Karate chess " and the slow, Petrosjan like " zusammenschieben " -last only works within very special opening lines...as soon as you get into Ruy Lopez, Breyer or Exchange variation, it's finished with " zusammenschieben ". Have a try on this within K.-indian, 4 pawn attack or the Awerbach System - try it within the Sicilian Dragon + you'll understand, what I mean. Interesting would be, if G 5 could be pushed together as well - I doubt this, because of the origin style of this program ( watch out for a note of mine concerning this, particularly, elsewhere ). Anyway - this is the only style of playing against a program xy under normal circumstances. There's no way for Mr. Steinwender to survive with his xxx style in normal chess because I presume, that with an - estimated (!) rating of 1.900 ELO you might learn some lines to repeat perfectly - but I dare to doubt if you understand fully, what you are doing there actually. So, this is completely irregular to me - same as the funny monkey in this mag - or even the unnamable Mr. Carstens.... in the end, one can discuss, debate, in epical lenght right up to academic discussion....symetrie, non- symetrie, null - or double null move....... 25 times faster with 100 MB RAM - if you fill it with nonsense - it will only be a huge mass of nonsense.... for my opinion the majority of the top progs at present have come near to the height of their possibilities. The only way to get further improvenments is the implementation of knowledge, knowledge + more knowledge. This - and only this MIGHT lead once towards a situation, where a prog realizes because of a so reached position how to carry on based to the situation - and this could be called : strategy. Of course - I'm not involved in the scene anymore - my knowledge of this is way overdone - so I couldn't dare to say how to do - but as a long time chess player I can say what's needed...... IF you had the time + interest - I'd really would love to read a comment of the PILZ setup against the SPASSKI - setup - this would be roarin' thunder on the board.... and praise yourself lucky - you can actually " feel " the moves, played then - because you just use your XX PC board...:-) keep on rockin' ElvisPCD@aol.com elvispcd@owl-online.de
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