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Subject: Re: Pro Deo in Arena

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 00:25:35 09/03/04

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On September 02, 2004 at 20:19:39, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On September 02, 2004 at 17:53:20, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>On September 02, 2004 at 17:28:18, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>thanks Ed!
>>
>>Your words are nice to read for me:
>>
>>- A little bit against my bad conscience
>> (Leiden 2000, or 2001).
>>
>>- mail to your beta testers in test time of Gandalf 5.1
>>
>>But nobady is perfect!
>>In this time I made to many things and loosed in a lot of cases the feeling for
>>the situation.
>
>Okay Frank, let's forget about the past and make a fresh new start, will you?
>
>My best to you,
>
>Ed

Hi Ed,

yes, that would be great!

I have a little question Ed!
Not the right thread but important for me.

Since over one year I come back to my first years of computer chess. I try to
reproduce my collection of favorite chess computers and played a lot games in my
free time this year. I like the Mephisto chassi of Mephisto Milano, Berlin,
Modena, Atlanta and have here all six types. My favorite is Mephisto Milano
(like the playing style and the display information).

The question I have:
You created at last the following programs:

Mephisto MMV (very tactical)
Mephisto Milano (combination tactic and positional playing style)
Mephisto Polgar (positional playing style)

After all my tests for many years and in this times :-) I believe the best one
is the Mephisto Milano but not in the SSDF. This my opinion about it and it
would nice to know what you are thinking about it. I believe the way you go with
the program style in Mephisto Milano is the way you search for your first "PC"
chess programs. Your experiments with GM human games in the following years are
a second good example. Do you think that the Mephisto Milano is the strongest of
this three chess computers? Is this right that you try to find out the
combination of positional and tactic playing style in your first PC chess
program up to today in Rebel / ProDeo? With time we can see that the combinated
engines are stronger with the tactical only engines. The hardware is faster and
in the first years of computer chess the tactical programs have an advantage. So
it's a little bit a sensation that the Milano and not the MMV is stronger chess
computer (in my opinion).

Your answer will be great for a lot of chess computer fans I know becuase this
question is a long time questions if we played our tournaments. Have this
discuss with my chess friend each time we play our tourneys. Perhaps you find
the time for an answer.

Today we have the discuss that Rebel can be stronger with "only" more tactic
(opinion from my chess friend, not my).

Best
Frank



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