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Subject: Re: Are any programs good at analyzing closed positions?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 14:56:12 12/31/00

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On December 31, 2000 at 17:38:12, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On December 31, 2000 at 16:26:23, Andy Serpa wrote:
>
>>It seems most programs are getting better and better at avoiding blocked
>>positions.  Does that mean that are getting worse and worse at analyzing blocked
>>positions that are presented to them?
>>
>>In other words, if I want to use a computer to help analyze my own human - human
>>games in which I might get into very closed positions on purpose, and where
>>trying my best to unblock it might not be the best thing to do, is a computer
>>any use to me here?  Is it just going to come up with unblocking moves no matter
>>what, or is there any program that can do a decent analysis of such positions?
>>(Positions that the computer would never find itself in had it played the game)
>>
>
>>Andy Serpa
>
>Deep Fritz was programmed to play better at blocked positions and it is an
>improvement on the current SSDF leader Fritz 6a. Therefore, it will play better
>overall.

PS: The Key word here is which program has better positional understanding to
analyzed blocked positons?

>Pichard.
>http://www.chessbase.com/newproducts.htm#deep



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