Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 21:40:06 08/13/00
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On August 13, 2000 at 20:51:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 13, 2000 at 18:47:42, Alvaro Rodriguez wrote: > >>On August 13, 2000 at 18:20:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On August 13, 2000 at 16:21:34, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On August 13, 2000 at 15:12:25, Christophe Theron wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 13, 2000 at 11:42:57, Mike S. wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On August 13, 2000 at 10:59:22, pete wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>(...) >>>>>>>[D]3r1rk1/2p1Rppp/p4n2/1p1b4/3P4/3B3P/PPPN2P1/4R1K1 b - - 0 1 >>>>>> >>>>>>It seems to me that Tiger, when playing 21...Bxa2?, cannot have expected 22.b3. >>>>>>Maybe he expected something like 22.Rxc7 Rxd4 23.Ra1 Bd5 24.Rxa6 or similar. I >>>>>>would be interested if Tiger "knows" this standard motif of locking up a bishop >>>>>>after it captured a border pawn on the 2nd (7th) row. I think, in such cases the >>>>>>lines beginnig with b3 etc. should be examined more closely than usual (?). >>>>>> >>>>>>Regards, >>>>>>M.Scheidl >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Chess Tiger 12.0e has a partial knowledge of this "standard motif". It knows >>>>>that the bishop is in trouble if it cannot leave a2, but the evaluation penalty >>>>>I give in this case does not prevent it to take the pawn. >>>>> >>>>>That means that if another move could lead to a positional advantage, Tiger >>>>>would play the other move. If there is no such move, Tiger will take the pawn >>>>>with the bishop. >>>>> >>>>>I know it sounds a little bit strange, but I have been thinking about this >>>>>problem for quite a while, and I have not found a good solution. For every >>>>>example of a trapped bishop that gets lost I have seen the opposite example >>>>>where the trapped bishop eventually escapes or completely shreds the side it has >>>>>been trapped in, which leads to a big pawn majority and a winning endgame. >>>> >>>>The question is what happens in cases when you cannot find by a search of few >>>>minutes that the bishop can escape and cannot find by a search of few minutes >>>>that the bishop is trapped. >>>> >>>>I believe that in most of these cases moves like Bxa2 are wrong but I may be >>>>wrong because I did not see a lot of examples when search cannot solve the >>>>problem. >>>> >>>>Uri >>> >>> >>>I prefer to be conservative here. Rather than trying (a) if the bishop isn't >>>lost, then take the pawn, I prefer (b) if the bishop can't get off of a2 by >>>the time the evaluation is called, then it is trapped. >>> >>>Works well for me, very inexpensive to test for. >> >>Crafty takes the pawn if the analysis shows that it can get out? So crafty takes >>no risk.. Interesting to see what the other program does in this positions.. >> >>Regards, >>Alvaro > > >That is correct. It has to see taking the pawn, _and_ the bishop getting off >of a2, within the search. Otherwise it assumes that the bishop is trapped and >gives it a huge penalty. How huge is huge? The penalty Rebel uses is 1.25 Never seen the problem again when I implemented the rule 15 years ago after losing too many games because of not understanding the danger. Ed >I haven't seen it fail very often, and when it did fail, the position was >complex enough that it wasn't possible to understand it with a simple static >eval trick anyway. > >The amazing thing is that I _still_ see it happening on ICC... I got tired >of seeing crafty do that pretty quickly. I decided that sitting in a game >and worrying about whether it will play a move that even a 1600 player would >avoid was simply something I didn't want to do. As a result, I don't. :) > >A 2500 (GM-level) program simply can _not_ play such a move. If it does, and >a GM sees it, it will lose the next N games because he will set that trap over >and over... and the program will bite over and over.
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