Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:02:58 03/26/04
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On March 26, 2004 at 04:43:23, Uri Blass wrote: >On March 26, 2004 at 01:59:07, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On March 25, 2004 at 16:29:24, Darren Rushton wrote: >> >>>Think you will find that Fritz 6 came out in 1999 - you're taling about a FIVE >>>year old program. >> >>Not important. I don't use any techniques which were not commonly known in >>1999 (or 1995, for that matter). > >I think that you use a lot of techniques that were never tried by the top >programs in 1999 or 1995. > >I can say that for me the motivation to start chess programming was because I >considered chess programs as weak based on my observations(including the >commercial programs). > >I am talking about search and not about evaluation(chessmaster6000 that was ssdf >leader after 1995 has an option to show the line that it searches every 1/2 >second and I could see for example that it searches for a long time bad lines >when at some point the side to move is losing because of mate in 1 or a move >that obviously win material but chessmaster simply did not search that mate but >a different line,I did not buy chessmaster9000 but I suspect that >chessmaster9000 suffers from the same problem). I forgot to add that my suspect is based on a post of John merlino when chessmaster search for a long time move X but after playing move X it had no problem to see mate for the opponent. It is not to say something bad about chessmaster and I believe that almost all programs including my program can suffer from the same problem. Uri
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