Author: Ryan B.
Date: 10:32:58 10/13/05
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On October 13, 2005 at 06:26:05, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 13, 2005 at 03:02:45, Ryan B. wrote: > >>I think it is a known issue that Toga, just like Fruit that it is based on, >>knows very little about stratrgy and plays off being a great searcher. > > >No > >I think that evaluation is one of the big advantage of fruit relative to >opponents and not search. > >I have examples when Fruit simply evaluate position better than commercial >programs. > > > Becuase >>it is an open source program you could add to the eval but it will slow down the >>search some for each thing added. In computer chess it is still tactics over >>strategy, never mind the so called "positional" chess programs. > >I disagree. >I think that there are lot of positions that fruit understand better than >commercial programs(see the case of the exchange sacrifice that I mentioned) > >Fruit is also not a fast solver of nolot 1 or nolot 2 so I do not think it's >relative advantage to the commercial programs is tactics. > >Uri Fruit understands the exchange sacrifice you mentioned because it has no bad trade value. I am sure it could also get burned on not having one. Not that a bad trade value is good chess knowledge becuase it is just a lazy assumption that is usualty right.
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