Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 10:46:35 07/12/04
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On July 12, 2004 at 13:20:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 12, 2004 at 11:35:05, Kurt Widmann wrote: > >>Congratulations for crafty's improvements. >>I am not a programmer,just a cheerleader for the under dog crafty >>and always hoping that your program will be an equal to Fritz and Jumior. >>In this tournament I noticed a glaring weakness of crafty as to the exploitation >>of its own strength ie protected passer and also the reluctance to acceptance a >>draw against same or higher rated opponent which resulted in the loss of 1.5 >>points. >>It seems to me that crafty needs instructions to remove these weaknesses. >>In two games crafty was missled to attack an appearant opponent weakness >>instead of playing to its strenght,in both cases it was the c-pawn. >>Why not try to instruct your program to persue searh in favor to advance >>its own protected pawn if it can not find a value gain from going after an >>opponents weakness within and or go into a defencive mode at a certain horizon >>limit. And also take into consideration the rating of its opponent in an >>appearant equal position to secure a draw first before imparking into >>uncertainties. >>Keep reaching for the top, Kurt Widmann a former ICCF player. > > >Hello Kurt... > >You are correct in your analysis, partially. The one thing I am doing poorly at >the moment is that Crafty tries to avoid pawn structures that are drawish, >period, even if it has an inferior position. I have this on my list of things >to fix. This came from the "draw masters" on ICC, and I really tailored it >toward just going for open positions period, which is not a bad idea against >humans. But against computers, you can't get yourself into too big a bind >trying avoid a draw, or you succeed. You avoid the draw and lose. :) Is this not something that could be toggled with the "computer" command? When crafty knows it's playing a computer, it switches this off. > >I'm still working, and every game will be looked at carefully to see what can be >learned for next time. > >Thanks for the kind words of course..
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