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Subject: Re: Help! My program is a girly man!

Author: Steve B

Date: 18:36:47 09/03/04

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On September 03, 2004 at 16:20:03, Rick Bischoff wrote:

>How to avoid the "Oh crap I'm getting mated in 8 moves time to start throwing
>everything away to delay the inevitable" syndrome when your opponent is not a
>computer and might not even SEE the mate in 8?


just for the record..this is known as the Horizen Effect..
the program will push the impending mate away as far as it can to outside of its
ply search..
Steve

• Re: Help! My program is a girly man! Volker Böhm 01:53:22 09/04/04
  • Re: Help! My program is a girly man! zaid magi 05:22:26 09/04/04
    • Re: Help! My program is a girly man! Michael Henderson 17:48:15 09/04/04
      • Re: Help! My program is a girly man! Michael Henderson 17:51:02 09/04/04
        • Re: Help! My program is a girly man! zaid magi 22:32:57 09/06/04

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