Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 00:14:37 06/28/05
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On June 28, 2005 at 02:04:27, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >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. If you provide me instructions on how to make Smirf play under arena I will match it against other Chess960 program, but so far it seems that Smirf only plays under its own GUI. Jorge
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