Author: Uri Blass
Date: 21:30:42 01/26/06
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On January 27, 2006 at 00:16:35, Tim George wrote: >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. No proof that topalov of today is weaker than kasparov of the time of deep fritz8. Uri
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