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Subject: Re: King safety evaluation running wild ;-)

Author: Heiko Mikala

Date: 15:11:41 10/08/98

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Hi Djordje!

On October 07, 1998 at 20:33:56, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>Hello Heiko! Glad to see that you're keeping your programming spirit.  I went
>through the game and it was fun, as you said.  There is one little thing that I
>wished to point at: move 7 by Black which was, I believe, the Bishop/Knight
>exchange on c3.  Try to teach your program to refrain from exchanging its
>fianchettoed castling Bishop!  That was a substantial positional mistake, which,
>unfortunately, seems to still be rife amongst some programs (sh, sh -- some
>commercial programs are prone to it too!).

Thank you very much for this hint! I guess my program was just happy, to
make it's opponent a doubled pawn. For a very long time, my program had
itself huge problems with doubled pawns, so I taught it, that a doubled pawn
is not only bad, but very bad in most situations... I'll have to take a look a
these
fianchettoed bishops!

> Congrats on your match win vs Arasan
>(which is, after all, close to expert strength, especially at the 5 min per game
>level).  Keep up the good work, and, if possible, do send over some more of
>your nice Winboard games.

I'm currently running a game/30 tournament between the same programs as
last time, but where possible using the newest program versions.
It's a very interesting match, and there seems to be a little surprise in the
outcome of the match....

>I should go on with my CC page after a two-week spell off.

I wish you two nice weeks, greetings,

Heiko.



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