Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 04:25:50 07/01/01
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On July 01, 2001 at 03:35:28, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 01, 2001 at 02:11:32, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>On June 30, 2001 at 23:02:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On June 30, 2001 at 17:17:41, Fernando Villegas wrote: >>> >>>>Hi: >>>>If you look at the ganme Adams won to Pocket Fritz, you will concur that we are >>>>facing a program that, at least in this game, left the human side to kill him as >>>>a child. The most elemental king attack I have seen in years and nevertheles >>>>went OK. Blacks messing around in the queen side with no idea what to do as >>>>amads prepared the knife. Not even elemental defensives moves to prevent what >>>>was clearly coming with the obvious machine bishop-queen in the diagonal. >>>>Sorry, but I have a Fidelity old piece of plastic that plays better than that... >>>>Fernando >>> >>> >>>You sound surprised. If you take a program that plays well at 1000K nodes >>>per second, and run it on hardware where it can only search 1K nodes per >>>second, what would you logically expect to happen? It will play with 1/1000th >>>the skill (or even worse). >> >>In my opinion the whole Pocket Fritz concept is wrong. Why not use a more pure >>tactical program instead of SMK's Shredder that has too much knowledge to run on >>such a low hardware. >>Kurt > >I do not believe that it has too much knowledge. > >The problem is simply that it has not enough knowledge. >I do not believe that shredder has more knowledge than Junior and Fritz and I >can see it does positional mistakes that Junior or Fritz can avoid because they >have better positional understanding. > >I also do not believe that a program with more knowledge should be weaker in >tactics. > >The opposite. >A program with more knowledge should be stronger in tactics because of better >knowledge which lines to prune and which lines to extend and better order of >moves. > >Uri As far as I know a chess program normally becomes slower with more knowledge and should therefore be weaker in tactics. Kurt
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