Author: Matthew White
Date: 13:51:16 11/17/03
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On November 17, 2003 at 04:20:42, martin fierz wrote: >On November 16, 2003 at 20:08:45, K. Burcham wrote: > >> >>why do programs allow humans to control these openings? >>why do programs allow humans to set up these walls instead of exchange pawns for >>open files? >>why can't code be written to exchange pawns even when early in book? >> >>why stage these matches when so many know what needs to be done with opening >>code? I wish I knew why this was such a big deal to write code for. >> >>I am glad we have highly accomplished GM, but aggravating giving them easy win. >>I would prefer letting them outplay the program in an open position. >> >>kburcham > >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... > >of course you can add code to your program that says: "every open file more is >good for me". but this is clearly not an objective evaluation. many times it >might just be good to keep the position closed. e.g. kaspy as white yesterday >should not play for immediate pawn exchanges with f2-f3 - which is what some >programs were suggesting on ICC yesterday, probably because of this stupid >non-objective evaluation. > >for your final point, this is what you get in comp-human matches. kasparov >blundered terribly in game 2, that was just as aggravating as what happened to >fritz in game 3. > >cheers > martin I think that the reason for this weakness is mainly due to a lack of understanding of counterplay. Fritz "saw" that it had a weakness on the queenside, so it quickly rallied to protect the pawns (materialism fails once again). Instead, it would have been MUCH better off trying to press the kingside (roll the pawns) to try to generate ANY counterplay. Instead, Fritz became a spectator just like the rest of us... Instead of creating a new weakness in the opponent's position, Fritz made a number of pointless moves to try to protect its doomed pawns (mainly the a6 and c6 ones). Matt
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