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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger's Playing Style?

Author: blass uri

Date: 00:18:19 11/18/99

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On November 17, 1999 at 20:38:38, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On November 17, 1999 at 19:01:57, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>No Chris, you don't get it. If you prune too much on material criterias you
>>completely destroy the positional skills of the program.
>
>Chris, ahem, or Bella , or whoever you are, and Christophe!
>
>Hi !
>
>
>I don't think tiger plays fast-chess.
>it plays very nice chess. positional alike.
>
>
>>If I wanted to go deeper tactically, I could do it easily. I think I could go 2
>>plies deeper. But in this case my program would be completely crushed because of
>>incredible positional holes.
>>
>>Before the game goes on a tactical field, my program would have a totally lost
>>position.
>
>>Each time I have tried to sacrifice the positional understanding to get deeper,
>>it was a disaster. I have found that it works in the opposite direction: with
>>better positional understanding the program goes deeper. Because it sees the
>>right moves earlier, and spends less time analyzing sonense moves.
>
>Right. The more the program knows, the more it sees in the search.
>Tiger has completely different evaluation than any other program
>in most cases.
>
>If you want i can present lots of games and positions where tiger evaluates
>DIFFERENT. often 2 or 3 pawns different than hiarcs/fritz/others.
>
>Why ?
>Because it knows and comes also deeper.
>And it seems it evaluates a special thing much higher than any other program.
>i am sure i know what it is. but i will not say it. a secret so far.
>
>
>
>>You make it sound as if I had found a very specific way to shoot on a very
>>specific weakness of a very specific subset of chess programs.
>>
>>You make it sound as if I was not programming chess.
>
>>You completely overlook the fact that several testers including our friend
>>Thorsten have noticed that Chess Tiger has a large amplitude in its evaluation
>>function. It's usual to see Tiger at +1.90 when the opponent is still close to
>>0.00.
>
>Right. As i said :-))) it has a big evaluation function and very often has
>completely different evaluation trend than the opponent.
>and it wins. that makes it funny.
>i like it because it is different. as chess system tal is.

I do not think that the word bigger is right.
It probably has a better evaluation function.

The quality of the evaluation is relevant and not the size of the evaluation
function.

Uri



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