Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 05:15:26 12/12/05
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>The problem often is the focus on strenght issues alone. >The difference in styles, analysis abillities ect. is ignored or forgotten in >the chase for pure competition power. > >Regards >Henrik I wouldn't exactly call it a problem, but more a natural human preference. It would be a problem though if all engines played the same boring style and only differed by a few elo points (some would argue that is already the case, but i disagree). Now if you are only talking about the focus alone, i think that it is only natural to focus on strength before anything else, especially if you are a programmer who stands to make a living on his invention. With Rybka for example the focus, as i understand it, is on making a knowledge based program that is not just superior as a tactical monster and that "evolution" i think only comes natural if the focus is mainly on strength coupled with playing style. Now whether perfect chess equals exciting playing style would be very much up to what position is on the board, but personally i enjoy to watch balanced sound chess over crazy and perhaps unsounds chess and i would even go as far as calling sound chess a particular style, if style indeed exists :) There are many alternatives if style is your preference over "dull" solid moves and if strength is not an issue to you, computer chess as we know it could shut down it's activities right now and you would be kept busy for the rest of your life with all the different and interesting styles of all the engines available that does not focus on strength and/or has a lot of tuning parameters to fiddle with :) Regards Jonas
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