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Subject: Re: Computer trouble and the starting position

Author: Martin Giepmans

Date: 08:34:51 10/29/04

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On October 28, 2004 at 22:08:19, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 28, 2004 at 21:33:12, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>I've been having the oddest problem today.  My computer is emitting a loud whine
>>- except when _both_ processors are running.  Occaisionally one of the monitors
>>flicks off as well, although that has only happened twice.  I'm hoping it is the
>>power supply (which seems to be the part emitting the whine), rather than the
>>more expensive motherboard, but we'll see.
>>
>>I have been running Zappa in the background to keep the noise to a minimum (god
>>I wish I knew why that works), so here is the analysis of the intial position to
>>18 ply with singular extensions ;)  If I could only get 18 ply in games . . .
>>
>>1. e2-e4 e7-e5 2. Ng1-f3 Nb8-c6 3. Nb1-c3 Ng8-f6 4. Bf1-b5 a7-a6 5. Bb5xc6
>>d7xc6[S] 6. Nf3xe5 Nf6xe4 7. Nc3xe4 Qd8-d5 8. Ke1-g1 Qd5xe5
>> = (0.13)       Depth: 18/39    00:57:13.53     4129997kN (1203 KN/s, 8181
>>splits, 530 aborts)
>
>Do you like to play this opening personally?  Just wanting to see if chess
>engines tend to take on the personality of their owners, like pets are reported
>to do.

Interesting Dann, I think that my engine has indeed taken on much of my chess
personality. I learned to play chess relatively late - in my early twenties - an
although I managed to acquire a reasonable understanding of positional and
stategical play I suck at tactics.
The same is true for my engine. Although it's much better in tactics than I am
tactics has always been and still is the weakest link. And often it does exactly
what I would do: it tries to simplify the position and win (or hold) the ending.
The odd thing is that I didn't instruct it to play that way, at least not
explicitly. There is nothing in the evaluation function that encourages it to
exchange pieces, for instance. Yet somehow, I don't know how, I must have
teached it to play like me. :)

Martin



>
>[Event "Edited game"]
>[Site "DANNFAST"]
>[Date "2004.10.28"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "-"]
>[Black "-"]
>[Result "*"]
>[ECO "C48a"]
>[Variation "Four Knights: Spanish, Ranken Variation"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 a6 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. Nxe5 Nxe4 7. Nxe4 Qd5
>8. O-O Qxe5 *



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