Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 11:06:12 11/05/98
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On November 05, 1998 at 12:20:13, Christophe Theron wrote: >We have first to determine in which "part" of the game each engine excels. Maybe >we can decide that by playing a number or Rebel against Tiger games and viewing >them manually. > >We may end up with rules like "if closed middle game position, use X", "if in >time trouble in an open position use Y", "if playing queen opening at slow time >controls use X", "if opponent is likely to be human use Y"... > >So there is a open territory to discover. We can even create specials modes >where the engines are choosen randomly at each move during the game. > >I really don't know how this mode would play. The interesting thing about the >Rebel-Tiger association is that the engines have very different styles... You should be a bit careful: Different playing styles of the engines are no guarantee for success. I remember one AGEON tournament, 1996, when I participated with a 3-Hirn, using Rebel 7 and M-Chess-Pro 5. It became a desaster! Rebel and M-Chess were too different (in those days): In my position as controller I was not able to execute fine long range planning in the way it had been possible with other tandems (like Genius3 & Fritz3, for instance). Nevertheless, good luck for your project, and also for your cooperation in general. The computer chess world benefits from the two companies Chessbase and Millenium, but she also needs other competitors like you are. Ingo Althofer. >With 2 different engines you can cover these "holes" in such a way that the >resulting engine seems to have no hole at all. The condition is that the engines >are different enough so that they don't have the same "holes", which is already >the case, and that you are able to foresee in a position which engine is likely >to blunder, and we are going to work on this.
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