Author: Johan Hutting
Date: 07:00:38 12/11/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 07:44:43, Sune Fischer wrote: >Chess is primarily tactics, Vincent does have a point, to get into a position where you can use those tactics you require positional knowledge. Any 1600+ rated player can tell you that :) My guess is Uri uses a very simple patzer eval with big bonusses for good pieces along with a fast search. So far it makes movei play good, but if you wish to improve you'll run into a wall. >if you have near _optimal_ extensions and near >_optimal_ pruning rules, then you could probably get those extra plies on your >opponent and could win WCCC using tactics. but, with a bigger eval and good pruning you will still search the promising lines deeper, right? > >My guess is that Fritz would still be mighty strong even if they had to limit >their eval to 2000 lines. It would be outplayed by more positional programs and perhaps score some 'lucky' wins. But that's in 'slow' tempo games, blitz is another matter.
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