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Subject: Re: A new kind of "swindle mode" for Crafty

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 07:17:34 09/28/00

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On September 28, 2000 at 09:44:41, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 28, 2000 at 07:15:45, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>I would suggest a new type of "swindle mode" : the method is based on 1) make
>>the right move difficult to find for a human and 2) play quickly to put pressure
>>on human
>>
>>Here's the Idea : if an endgame is a tablebase draw, select all the drawing
>>moves and explore them only in tablebase to measure where the human will have
>>the hardest work to do : calculate, for all this drawing moves, with iterative
>>deepening, the worst ratio (number of drawing moves for human divide by number
>>of possible moves for human) for the human in the tree, because a narrower path
>>is difficult to follow (see the game Deep Thought-Alex Fishbein post some days
>>ago: where human had only one drawing move he didn't find it). The depth still
>>to be dertimined may be 5 plies, may be 10 or simply play right after the
>>human's move to put maximum pressure.
>>
>>This method exploit the main point of tablebase eg : the precision allied with
>>the speed; where the human brain get kill by machine.
>>
>>I hope that Bob will test this algorithm for Crafty , I'm confident in it :)
>>
>>If I was not enough clear please tell me...
>>
>>Best regards
>>Vincent Lejeune
>
>I do not understand
>
>Here is a possible position KRB vs KR.
>[D]8/7R/2k2K2/5B2/8/8/8/2r5 w - - 0 1
>
>After Rc7+ black has exactly one drawing move out of 5.
>
>Do you suggest Crafty to play Rc7+ because the ratio is probably the best with
>this move or do you suggest to search deeper in order to calculate the best
>ratio that you can force in 5 plies assuming the opponent play good moves?
>
>Uri


some numbers from your example :

after Rh8 :  9 moves draw , 9 lose
after Ke5 : 10 moves draw , 4 lose
after Rh2 : 15 moves draw , 3 lose
after Rh6 : 15 moves draw , 3 lose
after Rc7 :  1 moves draw , 4 lose
and so on ...

in this subset of moves, Rh8 is the best for me




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