Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:46:10 10/12/02
Go up one level in this thread
Interesting. Just an added thought about CSTAL. It is, really, very dangerous against humans and relatively inocuous against computers. My guess is that Whittington packed the program with a different kind of principles where highest scores were not simply given to best moves according some tactical or positional rules or calculations, but to moves and lines loaded with the highest degree of uncertainty, danger and threath. Whittington was inspired precisely in Tal. And what was the core of Tal playing? Well, to put pressure knowing that a game is won not because you produced every time the very best move, but because you compelled the adversary to play a critical bad move. And you do that with unrelenting attack. In a way Whittington was revolutionary. Behind his program, if I am in the right side, works a different paradigm at the same time sophisticated and simple: games are games and not math problems, so you win mainly pushing your opponnent to the realm of failure. My best Fernando
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.