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Subject: Re: How do you effectively dumb down an engine? (some suggestions)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:41:45 04/19/04

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On April 19, 2004 at 13:49:15, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On April 19, 2004 at 13:33:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>It's losses are tactical losses only, not
>>"positional losses" which is not how a 1300 player (or 1500 player) actually
>>loses games...
>
>I'd think any game between <1900 ELO players is decided almost exclusively
>on tactics.
>
>Of course positional playing strength does matter, but it's not what
>decides games, usually.
>
>--
>GCP

That wasn't the point.  You don't have a 1300 player that understands everything
about pawn structure but is tactically horrible.  IE with a chess program, with
a reasonable evaluation, tactics have to be way beyond bad to offset the
positional evaluation.  Then it just doesn't feel like playing a weak human, it
feels like playing something else entirely...



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