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Subject: Re: Topalov style computer chess?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 14:41:39 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?

The answer to your question is yes!

Look here: http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?482276

Torstein



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