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Subject: Re: Handicapping Chess Engines

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:19:14 10/25/01

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On October 25, 2001 at 09:54:33, Christophe Drieu wrote:

>On October 25, 2001 at 06:37:00, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>I think Chessbase's "Sparring Mode" makes a choice based on a limited ply
>>search, then announces a warning if it sees a better move at a deeper depth.
>>Right? I'm not sure what Chessbase's "Friend mode" actually does. It seems to
>>play reasonable chess while it's in a level game, but when it's winning it
>>throws away the victory. Yesterday I played a curious game against Fritz 6 (in
>>Friend mode). After 40 moves it announced Mate in 4 against me. After 70 moves I
>>managed to reach a draw.
>
>For me Chessbase Friend mode is very good, but not with fritz6 ! Shredder 5.32
>play good chess at this level.(no big blunders !). I think this is due to
>positional playing style of shredder, for this engine, lose 100 points is not
>always lose one pawn.

Fritz also has positional scores and I also do not understand what the playing
style has to do with friend mode.

If Fritz does stupid tactical blunders in friend mode than
I do not see a logical reason for Shredder to avoid the same blunders under the
same conditions.

Uri



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