Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 12:19:40 01/18/01
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On January 17, 2001 at 23:27:45, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 I do understand. I knew my idea was too specialized. Kind of orthopedic device. What you try to do has been my idea of what must be done since ever. Nevertheless, I do not dare anymore to talk about my pet idea of a module that looks at what is happening in the board before deciding what section of the rest of the code to use. But if you insist I can repeat it all again. :-) Fernando
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