Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:06:01 05/22/98
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On May 22, 1998 at 05:55:39, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On May 21, 1998 at 22:15:48, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> The practical point here is to >>recognize that average top fast searchers programs are enough decent in >>his positional evaluuations to get results and so can be concluded that >>positional evaluation can, in principle, be gotten with other tools than >>what we call knowledge in the classic sense of a lot of theroy and >>general principles encased in the source code. >>fernando > >When I replay Fritz5' championship games from Paris i don't see ANY >understanding of positional chess. >The only thing i see when I replay the games is stupidy. Artificial >stupidity.. >Weak opponents, weak results against them. >They had a fast machine, big hash and all programmers with them (to find >bugs e.g.). > >In most of the games Fritz5 showed pretty stupid 0.00 lines or >repetitions in the main-line that were very stupid. >My fritz5 is doing the same when losing or drawing. And I don't know >WHY. >From the faces of the programmers in Paris one could see that they also >did not understand WHY this strange draw-behaviour appeared. > >Junior or Virtual chess2 played much more interesting in Paris. >I am a little concernend that my impression of the above 2 programs >from Paris has not fullfilled at my home. >Junior plays weaker than in Paris and Virtual2 plays less speculative or >less agressive than I have seen it in paris. > >When i play with Hiarcs or Mchess or Rebel i have the feeling that they >play positional. Or that they smell it. >I don't have this idea when I replay games with Fritz5. >Even Nimzo98 shows sometimes more understanding (IMO) than Fritz5. Hi thorsten: If any -or many- program seems to dissapoint you once you are in home, maybe the problem is with your computer or the configuration of it, not joke. I myself discovered something of the sort time ago just because the conf. of my windows was not the best for my windows programs AND DOS programs. You know that lot of things can be configured in differents manners, beginning with the virtual mmemory. Better is to put an amount of it that let windows to handle it. And so and so. Else: the first commercial versdion of Fritz 5 behaves more or less as you say, I agree, but not the upgrade. Where the first one did nulle moves, this last get an edge. Take a look at your conf. files. Maybe something wrong there. A little less of speed do a lot of damage in certain programs evaluation function, but also other weird things happens with minute changes in conf. of the computer. Fernando
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