Author: Tony Werten
Date: 07:43:14 04/03/00
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On April 03, 2000 at 09:37:55, Bernhard Bauer wrote: > >Yes, a very interesting problem. Don't know what to do in such a situation. >The 100:1 time odds game between Crafty and Rebel comes to mind. >Crafty avoided lines that Rebel had no idea of - and lost. May be Crafty could >avoid the loss by playing non optimal lines. >Sometimes it's better to know less :-) >Kind regards >Bernhard If I remember correctly, that has been implemented in Rebel. I think it was part of the anti-grandmaster switch. If it would see a checkmate in say 16 moves and had to give a rook to avoid that, it would keep on to the rook and hope the other didn't see the checkmate. The idea was that loosing a rook or getting mated was about the same thing ( playing a grandmaster ) Tony
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