Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 09:36:31 10/21/02
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On October 21, 2002 at 09:06:00, Eric Liddiard wrote:
>Hello - I am conducting research in to the creation of computer chess
>personalities and I would appreciate some opinions. Are you able to classify a
>chess personality? It's not as easy as it sounds.
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>For the initial part of my research, I need to establish:
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>TYPES OF PERSONALITY
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>- what different types of personality are commonly found in the chess world e.g.
>is it as simple as aggressive, hot-headed, strategic, counter attacking,
>vindictive etc. etc. etc. Or are chess personalities not as clear cut as that.
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>- what distinctive types of playing personality are there e.g. what are the
>notable playing characteristics exhibited in the likes of Kasparov's style of
>play - what about the others. What player's personality was the most distinctive
>and whose was the most effective?
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>WHAT MAKES THAT PERSONALITY
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>- what characteristics combine to produce these chess playing personalities?
>This is more concerned with how the player plays a game and how it can be
>reproduced in computer chess e.g. does the aggressive player expose highly
>weighted game pieces more frequently, does the hot headed player sacrifice pawns
>more readily. What are the common characteristics found in these types of
>persoanlity?
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>Any input would be much appreciated. Do you have any specific thoughts or
>theories about this? I
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>am lookin for feedback from the simplest to the most in depth form.
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>Feel free to contact me or post here.
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>Many thanks.
>
>Eric.
>ericliddiard@hotmail.com
Just some things which might help.
what is typical about the playing style of Kasparov
Kasparov is known for his positional sacrefices and hedgehog formations
positions to get more control over the centre.
Alexander Alekhine was famous for his combinational play
And also for pschologial play still it is hard to say which makes the
personelety of Kasparov diferent from Kasparov but I think the diference is
mobilety because dynamical play was just in his childhood in the time of
Alekhine also didn't know as much about theory as Kasparov because this theory
wasn't known yet.
Ofcourse also manny openings played by Kasparov where not know yet in the time
of Alekhine
The diference between Karpov and Fischer is that Karpov more easely exchanged
pieces to bring a material advantage to a win then Fischer would.
While both where positional
But Fischer also played many tactical games.
Fischer also use psychology in his play like showing he easely could draw the
Fischer preferd endgames with knight against the bischop just like Spassky
game and he was the one who had the better position there.
In fact this worked out great in some games
Who infact where equal but after Fischer showing it they started to make bad
moves.
then you have Lasker who prefered to exchange pieces early on in the game
Just Like Capablanca diference Lasker used his king more then Capablanca
The you have Steinitz who didn't care to much about kingsafety
but also was a positional player who had a prety low mobilety.
But ok this is all hard to program
Capablanca was a wizzard in endgames
Petrosian and Nimzowitsch where especialy good in closed positions
Though both also played open games
So it is prety easy to devide them in Tactical or a positional players but more
dificult to seperate the tactical or positional players from each other
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So it is prety easy to devide them in Tactical or a positional players but more
dificult to seperate the tactical or positional players from each other
positional Balanced Tactical
Steinitz Lasker Alekhine
Capablanca Tal
Euwe
Botvinnik Kasparov
Petrosian
Smyslov
Fischer
Karpov Spassky
Kramnik Anand
The balanced switches between tactical to positional and Tactical to positional
which can help is use deepest search for tactical players(Longer tactics)
use deep for Balanced (Shorter tactics)
use normal for positional (Normal tactics)
Still I agree it's a maze
Marc
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