Author: Tim George
Date: 21:16:35 01/26/06
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On January 26, 2006 at 17:50:15, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Since Kaspy could not beat Deep Fritz 8 in a match, it's unlikely that Topalov who is weaker then garry could do it.
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