Author: Tony Nichols
Date: 02:49:37 04/22/05
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On April 22, 2005 at 05:28:33, Richard Pijl wrote: >One program demonstrating this point is currently quite popular on ICC. It >hardly has knowledge (basic piece-square tables + some very basic positional >scoring for e.g. rooks on open files and doubled pawns). It plays using a >Pentium Pro 200Mhz, and doesn't have advanced search methods in it, just plain >Alpha-Beta with 32Mb hashtables. It has no knowledge about king-safety, no >knowledge about passed pawns and no opening book (although it has position >learning that evolves in something that you could call an opening book) and no >EGTB's. > >Yet, it manages to win most of its games, even some against titled players. It >also loses quite a few games to under-1800 players, due to the obvious >weaknesses it has. Almost all of its games are won on tactics. Somehow I think >this program is popular because everybody gets the feeling that it should be >beatable (and it is!!) but the human weakness in shallow (but usually messy) >tactics is usually sufficient to not win those games. > >I guess that with top programs and top-GM's it is the same thing. > >Btw, that none of the programs is meeting top-GM's without a book is not true. >Last year, the Baron played a 2-game rapid match against GM Levon Aronian during >the Chess Classic event in Mainz). >This year (August 10th 2005) the Baron will play two games against GM Peter >Svidler. As this will be a Chess960/FRC game, the Baron will not be using an >opening book (and neither is Svidler :-). > >http://www.chesstigers.de/index_news.php?id=223&rubrik=4 (German article) > >Richard. Hi, Richard I was not aware of the Baron games, interesting. I would like to see slower games in a longer match. Regards Tony
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