Author: Tom Brake
Date: 09:40:25 07/21/04
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On July 21, 2004 at 12:23:48, Jason Kent wrote: >It sounds like your settings would produce quite a few gambits. Do you run into >unsound gambits often? I may try lowering the mobility for my next setting. >While I think trading the queen for two rooks is sometimes damaging to your >position, I think many times it is a good idea. Not very often does it play true gambit "gambits", i.e. sacrifice with unclear implications. Even just increasing the Positional mentality from base 0 to +10 has helped this a lot. I think it may produce a few more unsound ones if I switched the Mentality from 10 Positional to -10 or -15 Material. This would probably generate a lot more exciting chess, too. But its current settings it plays very good chess. Regarding the material value, by setting the queen greater than 2 x Rooks, it will still trade her off, but only if there's significant compensation, which will generally occur in the endgame/late middlegame, with hopefully most of the minor pieces off the board. I just didn't like the default Queen=9, Rooks=5, because it seemed too eager to trade her off within the first 25 moves, where RRvQ isn't an advantage with all the other minor pieces still floating around in attack.
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