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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