Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 04:05:17 07/04/01
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On July 04, 2001 at 05:27:08, martin fierz wrote: >"cheat" is the wrong word. trying to force the own style of play on your >opponent is common practice among humans. think about how kramnik played against >kasparov. or how people tried to avoid all complications when playing tal. > >cheers > martin The "anticomputer" techniques can be IMO divided in 2 categories (defense or attack): 1) Keeping closed the position to avoid strong tactics exploits by the machine, using for example walls of pawns. 2) Massive attacks to the king with sacrifice involved, like the Dutch Stonewall. Both of these are not very effective against top programs of the new generation, because a lot of weaknesses in that sense have been fixed. In any case ,especially the second type of technique, is IMO a kind of tentative to "cheat" the computer. Regards.
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