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Aberg variation of Capablanca's Chess. Different setup and castling rules. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Reinhard Scharnagl wrote on Sun, Apr 20, 2008 05:17 PM UTC:

To H.G.M.: There is no need for a polemic like: '1) Joker80 knows how to play a game of 10x8 Chess, and does so better than Smirf (oh, sorry about the 'insult', how politically incorrect of me to say such a thing...)' SMIRF still is behind, but that does not necessarily imply anything for used value models. The majority of Jokers losses were reached by SMIRF type engines, but I hesitate to derive some value related conclusions from that.

SMIRF lost several games by making a weird move instead of continuing a mating process. This has nothing to do with value models, but is related to other internal problems. So I hope e.g. for SMIRF-o-glot to ask for SMIRF's move decision explicitely instead of simply taking the move posted last as the optimal one during its thinking process, because there might indeed be a change during the last microseconds especially in such situations. Anyway SMIRF still does not handle mating scenarios correctly, which leads to some thrown away victories.

There are a lot of other design problems within SMIRF, thus I could explain its losses yet without having to throw away my piece value model.