Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 19:12:56 02/05/04
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On February 05, 2004 at 18:05:10, Mike Hood wrote: >I have no complaints about the other elements in the help file, the ones that I >didn't quote. But this definition says nothing. As it happens, I know what "pawn >levers" are, because I read about them in a book on opening theory. I'd guess >that at least half of this forum's members also know roughly what a pawn lever >is. But, considering that Fritz is aimed at a wide consumer base, how many of >Fritz's users know what a pawn lever is? Give the fact that I encounter dozens of people not even able to open the help file for the most basic operations of the program I wholehertedly agree. > 10%? 5%? Less? A simple one or two >sentence explanation would have made sense of this parameter. (I feel tempted to >write such sentences myself, but due to my relative lack of skill in chess I >don't want to open myself up to criticism... I'll let the better chess players >among us do the job). Fritz uses pawn lever in the way Kmock used them. I think the only explanation you gav give to percentages is the eagerness of fritz to open a file with a pawn. It can be a very useful setting when playing closed situations (like the French) where a computer program might not be able to handle in the optimal way. Percentages or better the values - what do they exactly mean? Doesn't that go for all the parameters? What does "4" mean? What does "5" mean? In other programs, what does "king safety at 120" exactly mean? Setting values is not for the program's convenience, but for the user's convenience. If Fritz is becoming too triggerhappy with pawn lever at a value like 4, but too defensive with pawn lever at -2, you could calculate to test it again at value 1 and see what that brings you. I think that's the general idea behind those figures. J.
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