Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 13:20:45 04/16/01
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Mr. Fieberg, The reason that chess programs do not understand the Sicilian is the lack of pattern recognition. That is something the Russians are working on right now. Computers don't "get" humor so how can they understand patterns. It will get better. Enjoy, Tim Frohlick On April 16, 2001 at 13:41:13, Christoph Fieberg wrote: >The best chess programs are able to play best opening books just by calculation. >However, as far as I have seen, they have a problem to play Sicilian. > >The answer 1...c5 to 1.e4 is the most popular among the top chess players and >also among all the others on earth. About 20% of all games are Sicilians. 1...c5 >is the move with the best success rate. But why? And why chess computers do not >like it? > >What is the secret of the Sicilian opening? Why is it better than 1...e5 which >prevailed for decades? > >1...e5 is the favourite opening move of cess programs calculating. Not so the >Sicilian opening. For Fritz6 this move is only the 8th choice (search deep 16!) >behind the moves 1...e5, 1...e6, 1...d5, 1...d6, 1...Nc6, 1...c6 and 1...Nf6. > >Wouldn't it be a success to modify the code (evaluation, search functions) so >that the programs would evaluate 1...c5 as best (or at least second best) move? >Of course, the already achieved playing strength should not suffer from the >modifications. > >Perhaps an even better strengths could be gained if programmers will find a >method to teach the computers the Sicilian secret. > >Regards, >Christoph
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