Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:59:42 04/01/03
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On March 31, 2003 at 15:38:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 30, 2003 at 05:05:34, George Sobala wrote: > >>On March 29, 2003 at 16:52:21, Jan Kiwitter wrote: >> >>>On March 29, 2003 at 15:17:01, Jason Waugh wrote: >>> >>>>It's style is highly customizable - it comes with a bunch of different >>>>personalities pre-configured, along with a personality editor to make your own. >>>>RE: strength.... I wouldn't buy it for it's strength compared to engine 'X' - >>>>but it makes an excellent complement to Chess Tiger 15 because it is so much fun >>>>to play --- DS for playing, CT15 for analysis. >>>> >>>> >>>>Jason. >>> >>>Thanks for you opinion! Why is it fun to play with? Does it play very active? >>>Regards >>>Jan >> >>You can make it play VERY active! See redshift running on ICC for an example - >>playing to a rating of about 2450 on a K6-450, very happy to make sacs in the >>opening and middle game. Other engines slaughter it because they defend >>precisely, but against humans it is different: e.g. against one IM (Chito Garma, >>FIDE 2415) who has played it at 3 0 blitz on this setting it has scored +61 =3 >>-46. The very fact that he has played it 110 times suggests that there must be a >>fun element! > > >yes, but that -46 suggests that the settings while "fun" are very "bad". Everything is relative +61 suggests that the setting was better than the 2415 at 3 0 game. I think that some change in the rules is needed if you want to do blitz games of GM's against computers interesting and fair. A possible idea that I suggested in the past is to allow both sides to take back moves and times limited number of times in the game. I think that supporting this idea by chess servers is not hard to do. I do not know how many take backs are needed for GM's to score 50% against computers in blitz. Note that take back could be also without playing a move and if a player thinks a long time about interesting option and suddenly see that he has almost no time left he can ask to take back the time instead of playing a wrong move and asking to take back move and time. Uri
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