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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