Author: Pete Galati
Date: 22:24:22 12/05/99
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On December 05, 1999 at 22:35:23, Michael Fuhrmann wrote: >Bob Hyatt stated in a recent post that all chess programs have "absolutely >glaring holes." What are the specific weaknesses of some of the top programs. One of the things that disturbed me about Crafty several versions ago, is that if I ran it against other Winboard engines (single computer games, sorry) that Crafty would tend to leave pieces undeveloped, and this caused trouble later in the game. Keep in mind that I'm not a strong Chess player, and _my_ opinion of Crafty's developing pieces is not as relavant as a strong player's is, and while personally I'll tend to try to develope as many pieces as posible before any atacking happens, Crafty may actually be seeing an important reason for leaving a Knight or Bishop on it's first rank. Other programs, sometimes I think that Comet is a little bit too positional and won't take out an unprotected pawn when it appears to me to be a free pawn. I think Fritz programs are far too aggressive on the other hand, but they stand up very well in tournaments. In general, King protection is said to be a big problem with programs, this doesn't make it possible for me to beat them though. Pete
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