Author: Paulo Cesar Soares
Date: 11:19:37 02/28/06
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On February 28, 2006 at 14:01:41, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 28, 2006 at 13:14:31, Salvador H Cresce wrote: > >>On February 28, 2006 at 12:54:20, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On February 28, 2006 at 11:09:32, Majd Al-Ansari wrote: >>> >>>>Letting Rybka use an optimized book is almost not fair for other programs. >>> >>>Rybka cannot use that book not under chessbase so I consider it as not part of >>>rybka'a package. >>> >>>I think that the ssdf should not use it in their testing of rybka when they test >>>rybka because they should test commercial products and the combination between >>>.ctg book and rybka is combination of 2 commercial products. >>> >>>I am lucky to have Fritz8 and Junior9 as chessbase engines but I simply do not >>>care about book today and I am not going to use it. >>> >>><snipped> >>>> Rybka was already beating any engine with its own native book very >>>>handily, so now I guess things will really get ugly. They might get even uglier >>>>once the last few weaknesses of Rybka are covered (endgame knowledge). >>> >>>You are wrong if you think that lack of some endgame knowledge is the only >>>weakness of Rybka. >>> >>>based on my experience in correspondence games it has more weaknesses. >>> >>>Uri >> >>What are the weaknesses you found on correspondence games? Where do you play >>correspondence games? I play on ICCF. >> >>Salvador > >I also play on ICCF and I found that it does not understand some sacrifices in >the middle game. > >I will post more details later when the games are finished. > >I do not trust automatically computers and I analyze positions but I basically >trust the opinion of chess programs and cases that I choose a move that is >suggested by no chess programs are rare and they are usually when analysis >proves or strongly suggest that the computer suggest a bad move. > >I am afraid that I am going to lose at least one game because of the weaknesses >of chess programs but generally they are more productive than counter productive >and I believe that I could score less without trusting them and only using them >for blunder check. > >Uri I believe that there are cases in that two or until more moves should be analyzed with depth, that suggests that little times I believe in the analysis of the computer. It is a hard work to choose the best move. But I have to say that I am not a good player on live chess. Paulo Soares
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