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Subject: Re: why is open file code such a big deal for programmers?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:46:11 11/17/03

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On November 17, 2003 at 09:24:40, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On November 17, 2003 at 08:48:30, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On November 17, 2003 at 07:40:46, martin fierz wrote:
>>
>>>On November 17, 2003 at 04:51:55, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 17, 2003 at 04:20:42, martin fierz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>[snip]
>>>>
>>>>>the real question should be: why do programs like fritz play these closed
>>>>>positions worse than any 2000 player? fritz' programmers surely know about
>>>>>those weaknesses, why have they never been addressed? with a whole team of
>>>>>professionals working on it...
>>>>
>>>>Because it won't give you anything for the SSDF rating list?
>>>>
>>>>It probably takes much more work than just a few if-statements here and there,
>>>>so if you're not committed to playing against humans, it probably won't happen
>>>>that fast.
>>>
>>>it probably also takes much more than just a few if-statements here and there
>>>for fritz to be the engine it is now :-)
>>>and since frans morsch has claimed to have been optimizing against human play
>>>over the last year (lame excuse for no progress or something else?), he should
>>>definitely have addressed this issue.
>>
>>It is obviously a lame excuse as the last game proved.
>>I guess that Fritz did not get better because the programmer is tired of working
>>about it.
>>
>>It happened to Richard Lang and now it seems to happen to Frans morsch.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Do you know any chess program that has solved the problems of long term planning
>in closed position?
>
>Torstein

Long term planning is irrelevant for this discussion because bad static
evaluation was the main problem of Fritz.

Kasparov had a protected passed pawn for no compensation and for some reason
Fritz evaluated the position as equal.

Uri



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