Author: Henrik Dinesen
Date: 07:58:13 12/12/05
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On December 12, 2005 at 08:15:26, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >>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 Good words, Jonas :) I can't disagree, there's a perspective for almost everything, and I too have an eye on strenght, sometimes, whenever. On the other, I'm plaesed to see more and more programers who's interested in more than just that - playing strenght! From a user perspective, the newcommers to CC and chess in general, seems to be the ones mostly concerned about overall stenght, which is logical. Regards Henrik
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