Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 07:25:57 01/11/03
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On January 11, 2003 at 08:31:44, Lieven Clarisse wrote: >This is most probably a well known position (pasted below). But ruffian resigns >here (5 min/game PIII 450 64MB hash). I think this kind of situation can be >easily dealt with: if the evaluation score for the initial position is equal to >that, after 25 ply (for instance) for the best line, than the score for that >position should set to 0.00. In other words, if the engine can't make any >progress after a certain number of moves, it is draw; no mather how inbalanced >the material is for both sides. > > >[D] 7k/8/1p1p1p1p/pPpPpPpP/P1P1P1P1/8/1RK5/1R6 b - - 0 1 I completely agree. Material may tell the programm that white is better, but if no progress can be made then the engine can as well output 0.00 because it doesn't see a win. In addition you could also easily check if the position allows captureing of pieces in the search tree, and if no capture can be found in the whole search tree, then evidence is strong that it is a draw. I don't see a drawback in this. The score just says: "I don't see a win here." I can count up material myself, I don't need the engine to to that for me. regards Andy
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