Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 02:24:19 06/06/03
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On June 06, 2003 at 04:22:18, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On June 05, 2003 at 23:58:13, Sergei S. Markoff wrote: > >>SmarThink also uses some elements of Botvinnik methods of trajectories. See >>SmarThink details on SmarThink page. > >can you tell us a little more (more details) about the trajectories tecnique ? > >I read the book by Botvinnik (when i remember it right it was "Pioneer") about >his chess program and found that book very interesting. > >I remember that Marty Hirsch (author of Mchess) also read this book >and found it interesting too. Maybe many others read it. > >the problem with the trajectories seems to be that not many people seem to >understand what botvinnik MEANT with his trajectories. maybe >you can tell us what YOU understood :-)) > >would be an interesting topic to discuss here ... I'm planning to buy that book next week, but I would like to also hear how did you take advantage and what main benefit did your program gain by implementing the trajectories ideas. It seems that you were the first to really benefit by using Botvinnik idea, since many programmers have decided not to implement it. Botvinnik had the right idea, but his programming skills were not up to his level of understanding and mastering chess. That is probably why his program never reached master level. PS: Thanks for providing us with the first really strong chess program from Russia. Pichard.
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