Author: Svein Bjørnar Myrvang
Date: 07:39:51 10/26/05
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On October 26, 2005 at 10:21:07, Svein Bjørnar Myrvang wrote: >I suspect Fritz is very adaptive in the amount and type of knowledge it applies >to a given position. (I think Franz Morsch hinted about it in an interview a >while before the release of Fritz 9, but I don't remember where I read it.) In a >position without pieces and no captures avalible, it's very unlikely to be any >hidden deep tactics that run counter to positional knowledge. Therefore, Fritz >uses all its knowledge about pawns (structure, space, etc.) and kings (activity, >safety, etc.) and this slows down the search. With all the pieces on the board, >there's more material to account for, true, but the position also has more scope >for tactics, and so search becomes relatively more important. Pro Deo also has >plenty of knowledge, but uses it less flexibly, in that all knowledge that >applies to a position is always used, except when using lazy eval, and so with >fewer types of material on the board, less knowledge is used. This is just a >guess, of course, I'm probably way off... :) Found the interview! Its at http://www.chesscafe.com/text/mig26.pdf
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