Author: James Robertson
Date: 18:48:45 08/18/98
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On August 18, 1998 at 17:27:21, Peter McKenzie wrote: >On August 18, 1998 at 10:47:07, James Robertson wrote: > >>Nimzowitsch's "My System" is a cool book that helped me admire and enjoy the >>neat aspects of Nimzowitsch's play. However, I think his style would be >>completely incompatible with a chess program. If a program played the way he >>did, it would commit positional suicide, becuase his ideas are too long-range >>for most (all?) progragrams to handle. >> >>James > >Some of "My System" is definitely useful for programming an evaluation function. > For example, there isn't there quite a bit in there about Rooks on the 7th? >Most programs have this eval. term, its quite an important one. > >I think "My System" also talks about blockading passed pawns, this is something >that my program doesn't have an eval. term for but I plan to add it. >I've seen quite a few games where it would have save a half point at least. > >cheers, >Peter Things like putting rooks on the 7th rank and blockading passed pawn I guess I take for granted in a chess program; they are not Nimzowitch's ideas, and as you say, have saved points for people, but even a lot earlier than Nimzowitch. I was thinking more of his actual playing style as difficult for a program to handle. His favored positions tend to have such open king positions that I think a program would walk into an attack quite easily, without long-range human planning. In addition, he had a penchant for positional gambits; also hard for computers to play correctly. James
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