Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:27:45 01/17/01
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On January 17, 2001 at 20:39:00, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Hi Christhophe:
>I wonder -as a mere layman in this business- if the problem with Tiger with this
>kind of murderous attack could not be fixed with a very simple instruction like
>this: to hold castling -negative score- if opponent play h4 AND has not castled
>himself. Even more, if that situation arises Tiger could do his best to give a
>premium to those moves preparing queen castling. If opponent finally king
>castle, preparatory queen castling moves will be anyway developing moves and so
>nothing wrong should come from them. You still has the option to castle in the
>king side Or in the queen side.
>Sorry for this maybe silly idea.
>Fernando
Your idea is not silly. But it is probably a little bit too specialized. Because
if I was always programming this way, I would end up with a program with a
zillion of little instructions like this one, and this would not be manageable
anymore.
What I try to do is to find more generic principles and to implement them. Then,
and only then, if the program still fails on some very specific problem, I fix
it by adding this kind of specialized knowledge.
But you can understand that I'm reluctant to do it until I have tried more
generic solutions.
Christophe
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