Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 05:24:54 11/10/00
Go up one level in this thread
On November 10, 2000 at 07:41:28, stuart taylor wrote: >Of course he may have to work on it a bit, but he made TWO programs so that he >could see the difference. Very clever idea! But I am suggesting that a simple >combination, with not too much else, may do the trick, and perhaps it could be >done through internet upgrade? And next year could be even better! Judging from the comments made from the programmer himself the programs weren't created independently of each other. I think he wrote that the knowledge of Tiger 13.0 is incorporated in Gambit Tiger, while Gambit Tiger has additional knowledge about attacking the opponents king. This is furthermore facilitated by tweaking variables and paramters in a more (undefined) speculative direction, which encourages the program to make use of that additional knowledge. That's my understanding of the two programs, which might be incorrect. Given that it's a correct estimation, combining the two might not add anything at all to the strength. Especially if Gambit Tiger is the stronger of the two, because it might dampen its main strength, ie. the attacking style of play, in favour of the (supposedly) more balanced style of Tiger 13.0. However, it might reduce the number of games where the speculative approach fails miserably. Weighing the two possibilities against each other seem quite difficult to me without testing. Mogens.
This page took 0.01 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.