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Subject: Re: How to beat Rebel 9 in 16 moves!!

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 07:59:36 11/11/97

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On November 11, 1997 at 09:29:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 10, 1997 at 22:01:54, Robert Sherman wrote:
>>>
>>I am impressed that Crafty steers itself out of trouble.  But a
>>seven-point swing for a computer program based on positional safety of
>>the king is incredible.  It certainly makes that Deep Blue Be4 move
>>totally normal because computer programs were only a point or two
>>different.  Your score is 7-8 points different from all the commercial
>>programs that I have seen.
>
>I am re-running this and will post the results soon.  A couple of
>points,
>however...
>
>1.  I do *not* have king-safety terms that cause a +/- 7 pawn swing.  :)

I do.

Regularly :)

Chris Whittington

>
>2.  I might have posted bogus analysis.  I get hung up with position
>learning
>about once per month.  While annotating, position learning is disabled,
>but I
>played around with this game before doing the annotate, and it is highly
>likely
>that Crafty "learned" something along the way that screwed the scores up
>at
>this point in the game.
>
>I will post a new annotated game in a few mins to see how it looks after
>the
>position.bin file has been deleted from my notebook...



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