Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 07:35:54 08/04/98
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>>I see what you mean. The above quote has nothing to do with >>playing normal games. Also there is no reference to playing >>strength as you indicated. >>I refer to what Fernando posted and also to one of the latest >>CCC opinion polls. Through the years people started to use chess >>program in another way. In the early days people (mostly) >>played games against chess programs. These days 99% of people >>lose all the time so the fun goes away. >>So people looked for other ways to use chess programs. Based >>on all the input I have received through the years (emails / >>letters) I would say we have the following situation (for the >>use of the engine only)... >>- Play normal games (strongest settings) 10% >>- Play handicapped games 20% >>- Use chess program for analysis 60% >>- Use chess programs for COMP-COMP games 10% >> >>All estimated of course, just my personal opinion. >>In this respect it makes a lot of sense to improve the "analysis" >>part of Rebel. The above new feature of the engine is just an >>extra. People want faster solution times for tactical positions >>so they get what they want. Also a new fashion is automatic EPD >>analysis as EPD is becoming more and more popular. So to make >>(keep) your program attractive you write new EPD features. And >>so on. >>- Ed - >I agree it makes a lot of sense to improve the "analysis" part of Rebel. >1 option of analysis is to give the program to play against itself the main >lines for some moves and create a tree of sensible moves. >This option in fritz5 is called correspondence analysis. >The correspondence analysis of fritz5 is silly because fritz5 does not use the >alpha beta algoritam in the tree created by the games it plays and can analyze >lines there is no reason to analyze. >Fritz5 shows evaluation function only after the leaves of the tree and I >prefer to see evaluation function after every move in the tree it creates. >Another problem is that I cannot tell fritz5 to use more time in the games >it plays against itself in moves near the initial position it analyzes. I like the option anyway. >I want to know if you are going to do a correspondence analysis better than >fritz5's Analysis include / exclude remains unchanged. - Ed - >Uri
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