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Subject: Re: Chess Tigger Better against humans than against computers??

Author: martin fierz

Date: 04:41:18 07/04/01

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On July 04, 2001 at 07:05:17, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>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.

what - playing against a known weakness of the opponent is 'cheating'?? look up
the word in your dictionary! it's what everybody does, *including* all programs,
which seek to open the position - chess is a battle of wits, and choosing the
battleground is part of it!

cheers
  martin



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