Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:26:26 10/09/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 14:52:43, Terry McCracken wrote: >On October 09, 2002 at 12:50:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 09, 2002 at 12:46:42, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >> >>>...the question is if Fritz team is allowed to make the same changing of the >>>params of the program to tune it better against the Human Champion strategy, or >>>at least to make Fritz to not repeat the same moves each time... >>> >>>w.b.r. >>>Otello >> >> >>I think the pre-match agreement prevents this, which is a pretty stupid >>stipulation IMHO. >>The human can study a game and change his strategy for the next, but the >>computer cannot? >> >>The agreement is really a joke, IMHO. > >Do you think it would really make that much difference, considering how Kramnik >lures it out of book early and then proceeds with his strategy to exchange >Queens, to exploit endgame weaknesses all programmes suffer from? > >If you change parameters for the programme to hold it's Queen, for example, >it may be a serious mistake, allowing Kramnik a strong or even winning >advantage. > >I think we can't compare changing parameters with Fritz, a commercial programme, >on an 8 CPU machine to that of Deep Blue a supercomputer, which has tremendous >flexibility. I just don't believe there is room for serious improvement in this >case. > >IOW it may make little difference or worse, causing Fritz to go down in flames! >IMO Fritz is playing well and fighting well, considering it is drawn into the >area of the game all programmes struggle with. > >Terry That I can't answer. But the rule saying it can't be done is just bad, period. IE I have some global sort of evaluation terms that I could (and would) modify between rounds. If I noticed the human trying to lock up the pawns, I'd turn that scoring term up a bit to try to avoid it. If he tries to attack then I'd turn that up to push him another way... Fritz is playing fine, for a computer. Unfortunately, it _needs_ to be playing like a GM, which it is not doing at the moment... Kramnik's match agreement highlights this problem with all the practice he has had against an opponent that he _knows_ can't change ideas between rounds...
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