Author: Mike S.
Date: 09:13:53 02/28/04
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On February 28, 2004 at 12:03:27, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On February 28, 2004 at 10:51:27, Mike S. wrote: > >>(...) >>I suppport the idea to add chess programs to such tournaments (again), and more >>often than in the past. > I do not support the idea to add chess programs to such tournaments. > This would only lead to [as soon as humans have learnt to play > the "do-nothing-but-do-it-well-strategy] dull drawn games. Suddenly this reminds me of the title of part 2 of a famous computer game, called "Chaos strikes back" :-) In other words, I guess chess programmers are capable of developing measures to avoid such dull draws, or already have them available. Usually they are not the defaults because they could be counterproductive in comp-comp I think (except Crafty, where the option "computer" is not the default). There is not much experience known from these settings which have an anti-human effect, from other engines. AFAIK, Shredder played with an aggressive setting in the recent tournaments in Argentinia, winning both. (I don't know if this is Shredder 7/8 default or not as 7.SE doesn't have that setting, but it has for example "prefer open positions" which is off by default. I guess when switched on, "dull draws" would be a bit more difficult to achieve against Shredder, too.) mfg. Michael
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