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Subject: Re: How do you detect trapped pieces in a program?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:09:32 03/14/00

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Good questions.But I have thought for a long time now, that the deeper and more
acurately a program sees, with better positional understanding, the
more it will naturally detect all these things. Even its eventually coming
out, if seen through calculation, then the program will not detect a winning
attack by the opponent, if the trapped peice will be out in time, before
suffering some damage. But it's still a complicated question as the side
with a quite-long-term trapped peice will lose some of its evaluation due to
less attacking possibilities and initiative of its own, even if on its eventual
release, the position might be more attacking than that of its opponent. But
that is like any long term vision difficulty. But the machine
can still be doing very well indeed.
S.Taylor



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