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Subject: Re: Fruit-Toga 1.0 lacks endgame knowledge ?

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 20:40:40 10/12/05

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On October 12, 2005 at 23:36:17, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:

>On October 12, 2005 at 23:30:56, Graham Banks wrote:
>
>>Quite often in such a position, the side that is material up can make no headway
>>and to avoid a draw under the 50 move rule will make such a move
>
>Yeah, ok, but if the position _seems_to_be_a_draw why the computer looses? (in
>this case it was an internet game against another computer... that's why I like
>Crafty's .rc file that has a special set up to play other comps...)
>A human master would never make such a move.
>
>A. Ponti


That's also annoying - when a computer avoids a draw because it feels its
slightly better and then goes on to lose!
Mind you, I'm sure we've all done that!

Regards, graham.



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