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Subject: Re: Interesting position in the Comet-Junior CSCC game

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 00:34:28 01/03/98

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On January 03, 1998 at 02:37:13, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On January 03, 1998 at 01:55:11, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>Huh ? Your PV at ply 7 shows black a rook up, yet -2.87 down ? Looks
>>like you evaluate the two passed pawns as worth almost a queen, unless I
>>am missing something. Of course, you had to do that to solve WAC #2.
>>It's quite correct in this position, and maybe the only way to handle
>>it. This would be very risky if applied too generally. What is the
>>formulation ?
>
>Bob is very speculative about passed pawn evaluation, but you don't need
>to do this to solve Wac 2 in reasonable time.
>
>bruce

Agreed, but WAC 2 is child's play compared to this Comet position, and
Bob's heuristic really pays here. I'm impressed. I handle such positions
with searching, and have to take some bad failures sometimes. I'm not
the only one I'm sure.

Amir



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