Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 11:29:50 08/18/05
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On August 18, 2005 at 10:55:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >That is interesting, because this past week, I have played 43 games (long time >control). 21 vs shredder, 5 vs prodeo, 10 vs junior, 1 vs gnuchess, 2 vs fruit, >and a couple I don't remember, all via my "crafty" ICC handle. Care to guess >how many times crafty's king safety caused a problem? Absolutely zero. So I'm >not sure I buy the "very often" part of the above. It certainly has some >king-safety issues, as does most programs I see playing. But it is not a "very >often" issue. Unless you force Crafty to play certain openings that it doesn't >normally like to play... I confess that I do force Crafty to play openings it doesn't normally play. I always run my tests from fixed starting positions, without opening books. An opening book optimised for the program is certainly useful in important tournaments, but I think using them in test matches is a bad idea (unless, of course, the quality of the book is what you want to test). When the program doesn't understand certain types of positions very well, it is better to try to improve its understanding of such positions than to pick opening lines which avoid them. Tord
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