Author: Tina Long
Date: 17:24:38 11/19/99
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On November 19, 1999 at 18:13:31, Fernando Villegas wrote: >I think I have said this time and again, but here I go again: why not to develop >more "fragmented" programs, that is to say, not a full program supposed to do >well in any aspect of the game, but one with a specific module to identify what >is going on and then select another specific module to treat it? I presume >something of he sort is currently done, but I suspect that a lot more can be >done. In fact, is what human beings does: we does not play chess with the same >package of ideas in the middle of ending, with this or that set of remaining >pieces. In our case is unconscious, we just change our parameters and to begin >with, pawns becomes a lot more important, the kind becomes ative, etc, but a >program could do so provided the super-module had a complete -or almost- table >of pattern positions to identify what is needed. >Cheers >fernando I agree completely Fernando, this is a direction that must get more emphasis. Fritz lets us apply different engines for different types of positions during the game, tactical or positional, but I don't know if there's a lot of accuracy in when it switches engines, & I've never seen a post of anyone trying combinations of engines against other engines. I wonder does this feature actually work on my Hiarcs732? I gave up on the concept of a "best" "personality" setting in Rebel Century, because I'd like this personality in this type of position and that personality in that type of position. I start a game with "positional knowledge" very high & looking very wide, next the Queens, Rooks, and half the Pawns are gone & I wish I was looking tactically and narrow. Ideally a program would spend a second or two deciding how it wants to analyse this particular move, (deep, shallow, wide, narrow, defensive, attacking,...) adjust it's engine parameters & then analyse. Maybe in 2005, Hiarcs 9/256 on my Sept/16ghz (36" LCD screen) computer, will be performing this type of analysis. It all gets better & better.
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