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Subject: Re: Is there a program with more knowledge about endgames?

Author: blass uri

Date: 19:07:25 06/04/00

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On June 04, 2000 at 19:33:45, Albert Silver wrote:
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>What difference would it make if without special-case knowledge the
>program judges this at +1.00 or with special-case knowledge it lowers this eval
>to +0.4? In both cases it will believe it has the advantage and in both cases
>will refuse to draw and play it out, only in the second case you'll be slowing
>the program by giving it useless special knowledge.

No
It is not useless knoledge because you can avoid trading to the wrong endgame by
this knowledge.

Uri



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