Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:45:08 02/20/02
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On February 20, 2002 at 12:18:56, Uri Blass wrote: >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. Why would you think that? Crafty plays _plenty_ of long games on ICC, and those are the games I generally use to adjust things, _not_ the more numerous blitz games that happen. I generally ignore those unless I see some sort of long-term trend taking shape... > >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. I don't agree. I don't think he knows a lot about Rebel 4. He is just playing positions that computers in general don't understand. I have played him many games on ICC as have others. He has a good idea of what computers can and can't do, in general. And, in general, _all_ have the same basic weaknesses... Some moreso than others of course. > >Uri
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