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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