Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 08:55:25 09/12/04
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On September 12, 2004 at 10:40:41, Albert Silver wrote: >I was disappointed and after doing some more testing noticed that all the >switches I had made such as increasing the weak pawn values, stronger square >values, and above all the Pawn Pressure (at 160-170 for the middlegame it plays >a very interesting game), my (or Pro Deo's rather) tactics went to hell. It was >missing shots and when testing seemed to take longer on most tactics compared to >the default set. I don't count a right move right if it gets it right for some >microscopic positional reason. It has to see it was right. So while it might >have been playing better positionally (presumably), it was failing in the >tactics department. Sigh! albert,we can make prodeo better in positional stuff, but the tactics is still a problem, mainly because the search is so fragile. and in the endgame... this is still its weakness. but we get very good middlegames. maybe on day ed makes a breakthrough in the search area and the good positional stuff can be supported by the search stuff.
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