Author: James Robertson
Date: 18:24:30 09/01/99
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On September 01, 1999 at 19:52:10, Heiko Mikala wrote: >On September 01, 1999 at 12:41:41, Alan Grotier wrote: > >> >> >>At what negative evaluation figure is it reasonable to assume that a chess >>program can nolonger defend the position and will lose the game? >> > >My program at the moment (for playing on FICS) is set up to resign, if for 4 >moves in a row the score is <= -8.0 > >The score -8.0 is adjustable via an .ini file though. > >This seems to work fine. It doesn't resign too early but also doesn't frustrate >human players by forcing them to play out a game through a boring endgame up to >the mate. > >Another thing I'm using is, that the program won't resign, if it sees, that it >will be mated soon, assuming that the human sees the mate too and that humans >feel especially good after having mated a computer. > >The only problem is, if the opponent is in time trouble... you will start to >pray, that the opponent loses on time, before your engine resigns ;-) That problem had me disappointed so much that I eventually made my program resign only when >12 points down! James > > >Greetings, > >Heiko.
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