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Subject: Re: Can you identify What makes a chess players personality?

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 09:39:29 10/21/02

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On October 21, 2002 at 12:36:31, Marc van Hal wrote:

>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.
>>
>>For the initial part of my research, I need to establish:
>>
>>
>>TYPES OF PERSONALITY
>>----------------------------
>>
>>- 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.
>>
>>- 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>WHAT MAKES THAT PERSONALITY
>>---------------------------------------
>>
>>- 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?
>>
>>
>>Any input would be much appreciated. Do you have any specific thoughts or
>>theories about this? I
>>
>>am lookin for feedback from the simplest to the most in depth form.
>>
>>Feel free to contact me or post here.
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>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

I forgot to mention that the usage of pawnstructures also devides the style of
the players.
Marc



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