Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 23:04:27 06/27/05
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On June 27, 2005 at 21:58:51, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Just because a program is strong at standard chess doesn't mean that it will be >strong at Chess960. For instance there is a noticeable difference between >standard Pharaon 3.3 and Standard Freenze, whereas according to my test, >FRC-Freenze is almost equal in strength to Chess960 Pharaon 3.3. This is not at all surprising to me. It reflects the unability of most engines to UNDERSTAND positional implications during opening. This will be covered in traditional chess by a) opening libraries, b) optimized weights in piece type specific coordinate related bonus/malus tables. Smirf is avoiding the use of such tables to force the programmer (in that case: me) to improve the program to a better positional understanding by AVOIDING such intelligence murdering piece-coordinate 'optimized' tables, and of course by switching from huge looking-up tables corrupted chess to Chess960's freedom. I am sorry about the fact, that Smirf's growing abilities are tested nearly by nobody. Some feed back could be very helpful. Reinhard.
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