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Subject: Re: Crafty's play when behind

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:19:59 05/30/00

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On May 30, 2000 at 19:27:46, Vincent Vega wrote:

>I looked at Crafty's play when opponent is ahead on material lately and I am
>disappointed.  It seems that Crafty will let you exchange the pieces away till
>it's too late.  This should be a trivial change to the code and it could make
>Crafty much better in such situation as it?s much easier to create complications
>that could improve the situation with more pieces.  Are there any arguments
>against such a change?


It already has such code.  But quite often it is a toss-up...  do you avoid
trading which makes it even easier for your opponent to mate you?

I don't see it losing enough games that this appears to be a serious problem
in its overall performance.  Have you seen something bad on a server or
something?



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