Author: Jim Bumgardner
Date: 12:40:14 12/02/02
Has anyone experimented with the following ideas or similar ones? What was your experience? Is it sensible to modify your strategy when playing against humans versus computers? * * * Given two moves which are roughly equal (within 1/8th pawn or so): a) Choose the move which had more opponent replies which looked good but dropped off deeper in the search, hoping the opponent will choose a bad reply. b) Choose the move which has the fewest 'good' replies (forcing lines), hoping the opponent will miss them. c) Choose the move for which there are fewer forcing lines for us (e.g. for which we have more replies to the opponent's higher-scoring moves). This is the compliment of "b". d) Choose the move for which the opponent's line isn't forced (the opposite of "b") hoping to get him into a complex situation which he can't handle. e) Choose the move which wasn't part of the PV the last ply, especially if the move looked bad the previous ply (hoping the opponent has been only thinking about the PV - might be good for playing against pondering computers to get them to squander their pondering). - jbum
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