Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 20:54:21 12/19/97
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This is a lot of posting to say that a program had a bad game, and a lot of conclusions based upon this one bad game. Every program has a bad game now and then, perhaps even often. Mine sure does. I had a couple (maybe 3: MChess, Junior, and to a lesser extent Nimzo) at the WMCCC that anyone is welcome to publish and berate me about. One even involved a misjudged passed pawn. Most losses aren't very pretty. Fritz got tangled up k-side in this game and mis-judged a q-side pawn. It let its position get pretty ugly before that, too. Mine would have mis-judged the pawn also, I'm not sure why. I think the problem is in the search, but it's also possible that more knowledge about passed pawn "remoteness" could be a good thing. It is hard to judge passers right because they are either worth nothing or the win the game, and the difference has a lot to do with specific circumstances which are hard to evaluate statically. I'm sure you have plenty of games where CS-Tal had a bad game. I think you can probably dig one up where it mis-judged a passed pawn, even. bruce
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