Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:50:15 01/26/06
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On January 26, 2006 at 17:41:37, Derek Paquette wrote: >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. We do not know that he cannot beat them in a match. This is only a speculation. Note also that Fritz9 and rybka can find the sacrifice after enough time. >Maybe playing like Topolov is a weakness...? No I suspect that topalov learned some good ideas from analyzing positions with chess programs. Uri
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