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Subject: Re: Amnon in Fritz

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 08:45:14 03/23/00

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On March 23, 2000 at 05:16:56, Francis Monkman wrote:

>On March 23, 2000 at 03:09:33, Jason Williamson wrote:
>
>>I have been running Amnon 5.06 under Fritz and have noticed really WEIRD
>>pondering by Amnon.  It almost seems that it was just randomly looking at a move
>>and analysing it, even if said move just dropped a queen in one move, or a piece
>>or what ever.   Mind you, it plays ok on its own time, and still maintains a
>>position of one of the top 5 or 6 amatuer chess engines I have.
>>
>>Jason
>
>If I'm not mistaken, this problem is related to the difficulty of extracting a
>pv line from an MTD(f) search.
>
>Francis

Hi F:
Maybe is not a problem, but the way Amon look at things.Perhaps the programmer
try to let Anmon to look at moves that at first glance are awful but that could
have some sacrificial potencial.
Fernando



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