Author: Guido Schimmels
Date: 08:23:44 12/08/98
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On December 07, 1998 at 23:19:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >This is basically a bad idea. You don't want to put *any* "path-based >information" into your evaluation, because hashing doesn't take the path >into consideration, and you get inconsistent things. Does anyone know, if Nimzo still uses this ply-1 stuff ? The version before Nimzo 98 (Nimzo 3 ?) did come with a template-parser called 'che', by which the user could ad ply-1 scoring himself. But Nimzo 98 doesn't come with che AFAIK. The question is, did Donninger only remove the che-interface or ply-1 scoring as a whole ? I also hate "path-based information", but on the other hand - Nimzo is 'not so weak' and if it uses it ... One example where Nimzo's ply-1 scoring failed miserably is a game with black against Seirawan (AEGON tournament ?). Nimzo had a rule which said: 'don't play g7-g5, if queen-side castling is no (good) option'. But as Nimzo hated the usual pin of it's Nf6 by white's Bg5, the game went on ...h6 Bh4 and now Rh8-g8 !!! As Nimzo was told not to play g5 at ply 1, it played a move to 'prepare' it. Horrible ! - Guido -
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