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Subject: Re: Topalov style computer chess?

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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