Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 14:24:14 12/15/99
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On December 15, 1999 at 15:01:58, John Stanback wrote: >On December 15, 1999 at 12:05:52, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>On December 15, 1999 at 11:44:52, Torstein Hall wrote: >> >>>Take the following position and setup on your PC: >>> >>>4b3/1r4k1/p3pr2/1p1pPp2/PPpP1Pp1/2P3Pp/K6P/8 w - - 0 1 >>> >>>Every human would play 1.a5 without thinking, but your chessprogram plays >>>1.exf6+??? It may be wrong to call a program stupid but..... >>> >>>Torstein >>> >>>( So far I have only tried it on Fritz 6 and Hiarcs 7.32 ) >> >>Torstein, >> >>you are pushing the cart before the horse. Making hasty generalizations, etc. >>Not all programs would capture the Rook. I've had time to try only Zarkov 4.30 >>(an awesome program, by the way) and it says, after only a couple of seconds, >>that 1.a5!! is the best move. I kept it on for several minutes and 1.a5 is >>still its PV. There must be some other programs that are just like Zarkov :)) >> >>The position that you picked out is the standard AI demonstration about AI >>stupidity (oxymoron, ain't it?), but it won't hold water for long. Think >>positively, please. >> >>Djordje > >I tried this on the latest Zarkov and it chooses exf6 at all iterations >(up to 5 minutes or so, i didn't try longer than that). I've never had >any special code for this kind of situation so I'm surprised that 4.30 >would play a5. Perhaps you played through some variations and Zarkov's >learn feature kicked in? > > >John No, no learning. I have just checked it out again. I've always thought that Zarkov was a mighty prog, ever since I played more than 1,000 games with Zarkov 2.5 that I bought ages ago... My machine is a PII-400. Go back to 4.30 and try it out, please. Djordje
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