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Subject: Re: perpetual check

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:57:39 10/16/01

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On October 16, 2001 at 08:38:48, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Steffen,
>
>Goliath 1.5 instantly says it's a draw.  Goliath is good at these type of
>positions as it has some sort of speculative draw heuristic which sometimes
>works and sometimes doesn't - in this case it works well.  I assume, but don't
>know for sure, that it works something like - "if the last six moves (12 ply)
>were all checks and no captures then assume that it's a draw"

It means that goliath guess draw score and does not ee it.
Goliath can be wrong in other cases so goliath results is totally irrelevant.

I knew that goliath see the draw in 0 seconds but did not think that it is
important to post it.

Uri



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