Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:14:32 03/12/01
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On March 12, 2001 at 01:40:22, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi James, > >>Thomas, if you are going to play a program on ICC you will have to develope >>"thick skin" and realize what you are dealing with is a bunch of immature >>people. > >:) Well, yes, you need a "thick skin"... Funny is, that I do not see those >-sorry, I must call them - cheaters when my program was around 2200-2300... but >now I am constantely around 2500. I can not see any sense to refuse some strange >openings, e.g. my program plays on ICC with a very wide opening book to see >which openings it can play and which it does not like... If I would see a line >that is allways lost I must change something in my book and not simple refuse to >play them, IMHO... If I do not know how to do is I must reprogram my creation or >learn how to do it... well, or stop playing... but refusing is very very poor... > >Greets, Thomas The point is that you have to address this in a way that is different from what everyone is wanting to do. You don't fix the 'h4' problem by hacking together a book with replies for 1. h4. You _must_ fix the engine so that it will simply punish someone that plays 1. h4 because the program knows how to develop and how to not castle into an attack. If white plays h4 and black doesn't castle kingside, white is going to have problems as it gives up the center for nothing. But trying to come up with a "book fix" is simply a whole lot of work for nothing. Because there are lots of ways to transpose around book fixes. This is similar to trying to fix the "stonewall problem" with book lines. GM players will run your shorts up a flagpole very quickly.
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