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Subject: Re: KN/s question...

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 09:12:39 10/26/05

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On October 26, 2005 at 10:39:51, Svein Bjørnar Myrvang wrote:

>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

That is the concession speach.  It has been rehashed here pretty much in a
previous thread.




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