Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 12:44:34 07/15/00
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Doesn't Crafty have code to help keep position open? I just wonder what Crafty would have done in this game. Roger On July 15, 2000 at 13:18:28, Jorge Pichard wrote: >In a close position such as DJ vs Piquet where the center became locked, a >subroutine which tell the programs not to castle so soon, as in this case on >move 9.0-0-0, until the program determines where the majority of the opponent >pieces are located, in this case DJ castle into the queenside, without taking >into cosideration that most of its opponent pieces where already located on the >Queen side of the board, five pieces. If the subroutine is written in such a way >that it will only castle to the opposite side where the minority of its opponent >pieces are concentrated, then it can avoid such a rapid king side attack as in >the previous game vs Piquet. My suggestion is to avoid castling so blindly >whenever the position is closed. Deep Junior could have waited another 3 or 4 >moves before it castled, and by then of course, castle king side or not to >castle at all. > >Pichard.
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