Author: Peter Berger
Date: 11:46:44 01/16/02
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On January 16, 2002 at 13:39:13, Aaron Tay wrote: >On January 16, 2002 at 13:17:08, Severi Salminen wrote: > >>>Not sure what you mean by "understand" but I recall seeing many Winboard chess >>>engines play b4 and follow up with b5 in QGD positons when out of book. >>> >>>I suppose some sort knowledge based on the pawn chain/structure would be >>>sufficent..And once b4,b5 is played the rest would be handled automatically by >>>search, bonus/penalties for backward,isolated pawns? >> >>Well, Requiem doesn't know anything about minority/majority attack, opposition, >>weak/strong bishops, but still it sometimes seems to understand those aspects. >>Requiem pushes many times pawns even without any knowledge. So unless you see >>source codes, you can't possibly know what the program actually evaluates. You >>are right: fast search makes many evaluation terms obsolete, IMHO. >> >> >>Severi > >Which leads me back to what i said. "Understand" is a rather vague term. There >might not be a specific "knowledge" about minority attack (whatever that means) >but if the program plays as if it understands due to a combination of other >factors, , who are we to judge whether it has or does not have that knowledge? If I find the time I will post/create a few test positions - pushing b4,b5 isn't everything. Regards, pete
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