Author: Joseph Ciarrochi
Date: 01:28:52 02/25/06
I just watched yet another game involving the famed rybka pawn push....Glauring did not seem to recognize the danger of the passed pawn till it got to the 6th row, wheras rybka seemed to recognize it immiediately.. I have two questions regarding this advantage rybka seems to have over all others 1) Once you see this error in chess engines (not recognizing the danger of a passed pawn early enough), how easy is it to program your engine to correct the weakness. Is this rybka's major "trick" and once engines adjust to it, will rybka be pulled back to equal with the other engines. 2) this leads me to a more general question. are chess engines getting better against humans, or are they only getting better against other engines. This rybka pawn push......would super GM's fall for it. Did rybka merely expose a latent weakness that exists only in other engines but not in humans (e.g., humans are usually pretty good at seeing long term pawn push plans)
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