Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:08:52 01/31/01
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On January 30, 2001 at 19:48:06, Garry Evans wrote: >On January 30, 2001 at 17:41:33, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi all: >>I have just finished two games with gandalf, both with me handling white at 40 >>moves in 90 minutes. My Pc runs at 500 Mhz and hash tables are more than 60 Mb. >>And my impression is not very impressive. I had heard about the positional play >>of this program but at least in these two games there is more a pasive atittude >>than positional acumen. In the first game, played in the CB Gui, Gandalf did >>not take not even a pawn. He just tried to parry my threaths and finally he got >>what he wanted: a dead position I declared a draw because the rule of three >>yawns repetition. The second one, played in WB gui, was more alive because I >>tried to push a little more in order to get some fun. Gandalf was almost all the >>time more than 0.50 points behind me and was never capable of pushing the king >>side in the opening he chose, a king indian defense. At last, around move 50, I >>declared draw -with 0,75 in my favour- due to lack of time - yes, I must work >>from time to time- and exhaustion of my patience. >>I wonder if something is wrong in my settings or what. There is somebody with >>the same impression of gandalf being somewhat indifferent in his playing >>ability? > > > My impression is pretty much the same as yours, I think I am perhaps alittle >more critical, as I believe that gandalf plays lousy chess, and was a Huge waste >of money! I do not think that Gandalf has better positional understanding than other programs and it is only another program. The difference between it and most programs is the fact that it is not a root processor and does all the evaluation in the root so you cannot get a big change in the score not because of deeper search. Gandalf is relatively cheap so it was not a huge waste of money Uri
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