Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 04:43:17 02/25/06
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On February 25, 2006 at 04:28:52, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: >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) Indeed.
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