Author: Will Singleton
Date: 11:10:02 12/08/98
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On December 08, 1998 at 11:23:44, Guido Schimmels wrote: >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 - Is that right? That's amazing, user-modifiable ply 1 scoring. I'd be interested in hearing from Donninger on this one. Will
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