Author: Ralf Elvsén
Date: 14:07:04 07/15/00
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On July 15, 2000 at 15:44:34, Roger D Davis wrote: >Doesn't Crafty have code to help keep position open? I just wonder what Crafty >would have done in this game. > >Roger Yes, I don't think Crafty would have been fooled so easily. Just a guess though... Ralf > > >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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