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Subject: Re: Junior5 and Beyond

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 07:23:51 10/25/98

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On October 25, 1998 at 05:43:29, blass uri wrote:

>

>It  is not enough and I think it should use negative depth for moves that leads
>to a pawn ending.
>

This is already done


>2) There is an evaluation problem.
>Junior should evaluate the pawn ending as winning for black and avoid Kh2
>because the black king is closer to the white pawns than the white king.
>Junior evaluates it as better for white because white has a passed pawn.
>
>I hope this problem will be solved in the next version.
>
>Uri
>
>
>> results with other programs?
>>(I should note that Junior5 avoids 30. Kh2 at depth=16, but IMO it is too slow.)
>>

Transition to a pawn endgame is an old Junior problem, but I'm improving all the
time. The problem is that you can and should search to a much greater depth than
you planned to originally. There are several programs that will do better than
Junior, but quite a few who will do worse.

Amir



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