Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 06:46:01 07/04/05
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On July 04, 2005 at 09:31:08, Tord Romstad wrote: >On July 04, 2005 at 08:58:11, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>The newer version of Glaurung can be called Philidor, 250 years ago the great >>Philidor wrote, "The pawns are the soul of chess." Although that statement is >>perhaps the most common cliche in the literature of the game, it is too often >>misunderstood. >> >>This style of play could be very dangerous against a program like Hiarcs-FRC and >>Shredder-FRC. Please analyze and give me your opinion................... > >Hi Jorge, > >Thanks for the interesting game. I have only had a quick look so far >(and I'm a very weak chess player), but my first impression is that >Glaurung's play looks unsound and too risky. It got away with it in >this game, but I think it can easily backfire in other games. > You hit the nail on the head, it will backfire later on with more games. I preffer this version which play more cautiously: But more tests are needed to make a solid judgement. http://www.math.uio.no/~romstad/glaurung/g024frc.exe.gz Jorge >There are two important differences between the evaluation functions in >Glaurung FRC and the normal Glaurung. The FRC version has a much bigger >weight for the space evaluation, and also a big penalty for having >multiple passive pieces. These two changes are extremely experimental, >and I have no idea how well they work in practise. Your game makes me >believe that at least the space evaluation should be made more conservative. > >Tord
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