Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 04:28:45 04/22/05
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On April 22, 2005 at 05:49:37, Tony Nichols wrote: >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 So would I, but I'm happy to have at least these games :-) Richard.
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