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Subject: Re: Thanks -- and a question about "fortress" recognition in programs

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:23:38 03/21/02

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On March 21, 2002 at 15:13:12, Steve wrote:

>Thanks to all of you for your responses.  Is it possible to have programs
>recognize "fortresses" by instructing them to decide, when the evaluation has
>remained static throughout a certain number of ply, that the position must be a
>draw?

Hossa has done some work on detecting walls.  I think that fortress detection is
a good idea too.  The problem is that I don't know of a single algorithm to
detect such a thing.  A lot of times, we simply recognize a fortress.  But the
question is "How did our brains arrive at the 'stalemate' conclusion?"



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