Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 05:28:32 04/05/01
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On April 05, 2001 at 06:21:27, John Hatcher wrote: >On April 05, 2001 at 01:40:03, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>You have no reason for claiming that CM_8000 is playing the endgame weak. You >>have used the wrong personality. The orginal Chessmaster personality and others >>too will not make the error ....a5. I have checked this. >>Regards >>Kurt > >What? I used the "wrong" personality? You must be joking. The "Spassky" >personality is supposed to play the endgame badly? "Spassky" is one of >Chessmaster's grandmaster personalities, so don't tell me it's supposed to >misplay King & Pawn endgames. That's absurd. > >John As you can see from your example a chess program is a very unstable system and if even small parameters are changed (Spassky personality) this may have a negative (positve) influence on the thinking process. I would not dare to say that the Spassky personality misplays King and Pawn endings but in the given situation the program fails to find the correct move. Kurt
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