Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:18:56 02/20/02
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On February 20, 2002 at 12:10:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 20, 2002 at 12:00:12, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On February 20, 2002 at 11:29:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>Don't understand the king safety evaluation here myself. All Crafty will >>>consider for black is Nxe5. Handling this kind of position is critical when >>>playing on ICC for example... "Thou shalt not attack thyself..." >> >>All Crafty will ever think is 'thou shalt not attack..." :) >> >> int king_safety_asymmetry = -40; >> >>Horrors! >> >>-- >>GCP > > >Whatever it takes to survive. Better to defend and win than to attack >and lose... which is _very_ common against a few particular players on >ICC. > >Why open up both yourself _and_ your opponent and hope _you_ get the attack >going first? Humans are _better_ at analyzing such positions than any computer >program around. Playing right into their strength is incredibly dangerous... Playing tournament time control game is not the same as playing in ICC and I guess that van wely could try a different strategy against Crafty. Van wely plays against the opponent so it is natural that he is going to play for positions that Rebel does not know to play and not for positions that other programs do not know to play. Uri
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