Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 15:48:53 02/26/03
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Thanks, Dann, Uri, and Robin! I think I understood all of that. That was very helpful. Again, I'm know next to nothing about chess engine programing, so I assumed that the evaluation function guided the search function. I don't know why I assumend that...I just did. Yes, Shredder's evaluations are very "optimistic", Robin. I was surprised to see how it enjoyed the White side of the Smith-Morra Gambit, while other engines naturally prefer Black's extra pawn. Perhaps the latest Junior is similarly "optimistic." I hope that SMK prepares Shredder 8 with less optimistic evaluations in order to try to match reality. It seems too from my review of chess engines in positions resulting from Ham-Nimzo 7.32 (please see my review), that certain closed pawn formations absolutely baffle the latest chess engines. I've read that Hiarcs 8 is one of the most heavily "knowledge" laden chess engines. So I hope that somebody would test Hiarcs 8 on those same positions from my correspondence games. All the best, Stephen
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