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Subject: Re: Topalov style computer chess?

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 14:41:37 01/26/06

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On January 26, 2006 at 17:19:43, bryan wrote:

>With Topalov showing that he will often exchange rooks for knights or bishops,
>would a chess engine ever choose to make such sacrifices?  Are the piece values
>locked at the core of the evaluation function, or would it be common to lower
>the value of a rook bewlow that of a bishop or knight depending on the position?
> Specifically, would a computer ever play 18.Rxe4 as Topalov did against
>Aronian?

I read this post and thought for a minute about which programs might be doing it
already, then I thought...even if no program does this, Topolov can't beat any
of the top 10 programs on the SSDF in a match anyway, so it doesn't matter.
Maybe playing like Topolov is a weakness...?



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