Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 08:42:35 09/06/98
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On September 06, 1998 at 10:18:46, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: <snip> >My 2 cents out of common sense (but who trusts common sense?): it might (?) make >sense to believe that an aggressive style (opening up the position, going for >tactics) will improve the performance of a program against people. But even if >this is true, it might make the program weaker overall. I mean, performance >against people is not the only measure of strength. And in the games above, the >most aggressive programs, like Mchess, the King and CST, are not the ones that >did best... So, in this regard it seems we know next to nothing. > >Enrique Maybe, if possible, it would be good to have a user option [a toggle] in the software [for all chess engines] which would allow the user to tell the program in advanced whether the computer's opponent was human or machine. Then the program could play "anit-human" against the humans and "anti-computer" against the computers. This could be generalized to allow the user the option of giving the computer other such information as well. Bob D.
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