Author: Sandi Ordinario
Date: 11:33:21 03/21/03
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On March 21, 2003 at 13:57:07, George Sobala wrote: >Have a look at "redshift" on ICC. This is currently (last 10 days or so) running >a Deep Sjeng Personality I created - not a lot of thought went into it, I just >cranked up the scores for king-attack, piece position etc etc *absurdly* high - >so that it comes up with evals of e.g. +8 just for having its queen near the >opponent's king. It happily sacs a pawn or two in the opening, and tosses pieces >merrily in the middle game. Despite this, its Rotweiler-like devotion to chasing >the opponent's king gives it a rating of around 2350 on ICC (running on a mere >K6-450) - and it has knocked over a few IMs in its time. When losing, it just >complicates the position further. Computers see right through it and annihalate >it, but humans - well, humans make mistakes when their king is surrounded. > >I think of it as a demented spirit of Tal, and it certainly indicates that the >strategy of creating a better chess engine merely by testing against other chess >engines does not fully explore the creative (and anti-human) possibilities of >computer chess. > >Great fun to watch. Hi George, Perhaps you can elucidate on "a demented spirit of Tal." Is there any other spirit he possesses in his games? To us mere mortals, it would seem like a demented spirit until we see through at almost the last moments his brilliant coup d'etat. He happens to be my favorite chess champion so perhaps i am taking exception to that comment but being a reasonable, congenial fellow, I am just asking for further explanation from you. My best, sandi
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