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Subject: Re: Why does the Chess Genius programs play strong on 486 machines?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:34:04 09/12/98

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On September 12, 1998 at 14:04:40, Serge Desmarais wrote:

>On September 12, 1998 at 08:10:14, Moritz Berger wrote:
>
>>On September 11, 1998 at 17:37:48, Serge Desmarais wrote:
>>
>>>On September 11, 1998 at 06:25:27, Moritz Berger wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>You surprise me, here, when you say that Fritz plays opening moves with ONE
>>>>>occurence! On my computer, all the moves that are unique get a 0% chance of
>>>>>being played. Of course, if all the moves in a given position were played less
>>>>>than 10 times, that is another story. Did you set your parameters for Fritz to
>>>>>play a greater diversity of moves than the default settings?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Serge Desmarais
>>>>
>>>>Try it yourself: Open tree F11, follow the most popular move until one game
>>>>remains, click "move now" button, Fritz will display "in book" in the "seach
>>>>info display" and play the book line until the end.
>>>>
>>>>Moritz
>>>
>>>   But that is another story! If ONLY ONE move is in book for a given position,
>>>it has no choice but to play it. But up to there, it must be a move that won the
>>>game. Do you think it should start "thinking" when only ONE game is listed for
>>>the only move given or for all the available move? That would be an interesting
>>>idea. Personnally, I think that Fritz should ADD the first move played by its
>>>opponent that is not in its book and also should start thinking if the results
>>>obtained by itself when playing all the available moves (or the unique move)
>>>weren't good. Of course, not based on blitz games, but on games of 1 hour/mate
>>>AT LEAST, or based on a certain minimum depth reached. It could also add its own
>>>reply in the book.
>>>
>>>
>>>Serge Desmarais
>>
>>I think that Ed's EOC concept looks better (where the book is a mere guidance
>>for the engine, but needs to be confirmed by calculation). If the engine gets
>>more "sceptical" about the book the fewer reference game exist for a given move,
>>this seems to be a good way to avoid extreme evals after leaving book (maybe
>>still playing hand-selected sharp lines, gambits etc.).
>>
>>Moritz
>
>
>Looks interesting to me! I don't have Rebel's program, except for the Decade
>version. So, you are telling me thet right on the first move, Rebel calculates?
>
>
>Serge Desmarais


I do this in Crafty.  But it is dangerous.  Just do "book random 0" and crafty
will do a search on the set of known book moves to choose one.  But doing this
almost guarantees that it will accept any gambit, because the search is not
as deep as a normal search to save time.  And accepting some gambits is quite
bad.  Trying to hold the gambit pawn is generally worse...



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