Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 22:51:47 01/03/01
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On January 03, 2001 at 13:22:44, Fabio Barrettone wrote: >On January 03, 2001 at 12:52:39, John Dahlem wrote: > >>I saw on ICC a player who used Deep Fritz and seemed to only play Chess Tiger's. >> He had a custom book his first move was often 1.h4?, yet he won almost every >>game he played. I think he had a 1100 MHz AMD and the Tigers I saw him playing >>had an 800 mhz P3. Was he winning so much because of hardware, software, the >>opening book, or a combination of the three? > >Well, I think this is just a form of cheat. Tiger doesn't have a learning book >function working, Fritz is almost "brute force" in this field. You will see >almost the same games over and over. I really don't know why people do this, but >I really don't know why people cheats using computers without a (c) on servers >either, so... Book learning has nothing to do with it. How Tiger plays in a given position outside of book moves does, however. It is hardly cheating to put Tiger in these positions. >I really hope that the patch promised by Christophe will resolve >this part of problem, at last in part. In any case, however, I think it will be >always possible to play lines against a computer opponent to make your program >always win against it. As you see in fact the player you observed played almost >always against Tiger. You prepare some lines for a target and you begin to play >always that variations. Also if your program will learn it will never change his >play so much as to win that line, this is what I've seen till now in my >experiments, but maybe this is possible; if someone of the programmers would >illuminate me on this point I would be grateful. > >For the hardware, I don't think the difference is so much as to make Tiger lose >extensively. > >Naturally the same could be applied to Fritz (as a target) as well. > Bring it on. :) -elc.
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