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Subject: Re: Take a look at this great game WOW ! The power of Pawns

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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