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Subject: the engines are becoming too smart: refusal to accept material advantage

Author: Joseph Ciarrochi

Date: 14:53:03 12/21/05


1) e4 d5, 2)exd5, qxd5 3) nc3 qa5; 4) d4, c6; 5) nf3, nf6 6) bd2, qb2

Oh, and one final, interesting note about the position. Although the b pawn is
hanging, the modern engines tend to ignore this and develop for white and the
black side never takes the pawn. Yet, their is no clear refutation of the pawn
capture. Black can capture it and there is no line where white gets it back.
Indeed, Im martin considers the capture to by playable.


Wow, computers are passing up an immediate material advantage. This shows how
far engines will come.

But i think the ultimate advance will come when a computer can defeat these
weaker, anti-computer players (e.g., an engine should almost never lose or draw
to a 2000 player). When will an engine learn to play against a stonewall/lock up
the pawn structure type player?

best
joseph





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