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Subject: Re: CSTAL and the Cheop-Machack Experiment in the 70’s

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 18:14:05 05/07/98

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On May 07, 1998 at 19:23:16, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>Fernando, you can
>switch off tal in the CSTAL program.
>When I had a game where it lost or only drew a WINNING position i do
>often the following:
>Replay the same game with Tal-function knocked off
>(to do this switch off search-extensions:
>tal function, Defend OFF
>tal function, Attack OFF
>tal function, Lets have fun OFF)
>
>If you replay the game with Genius, and if you come into the winning
>position, you let the same cstal (but with knocked off tal-function)
>replay from the point when GENIUS says: CSTals opponent is minus >1 pawn
>- just an example, you can also use 2 pawns or 3 Genius pawns - than it
>should be possible to WIN the winning position.
>
>I do often watch cstal vs. genius.
>In the moment you see genius evaluate its position - 1 pawn or even
>bigger, you can switch off tal-function.
>I have tried out by making me two styles:
>beforeWIN and afterWIN.
>I use beforeWIN to reach a winning position and when the opponent is
>down I can load style afterWIN.
>
>Of course this is only testing possibilities.
>Chris could implement it much better than I emulate it. But it is worth
>trying it out.
>
>You can try out the styling-stuff to SWITCH between tal-on and tal-off
>style yourself. Its easy to do.


Great, I will try. By the way; i Just finished a game against you know
what and I got a draw after a fight that exhausted me as fencing with a
monkey armed with  a knife. My God! Else: do you know what happens with
Oxford site? In my screen I get only a pure, pretty white screen...
fernando



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