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Subject: Re: I forgot that Rebel Century & Shredder 5 are great in closed games

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 15:03:25 12/31/00

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On December 31, 2000 at 17:56:12, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>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
>analyze blocked positions?

These three programs will be your best to analyze closed positions:

Deep Fritz, Shredder5 and Rebel Century.

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



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