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Subject: Re: Wrong

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 17:12:11 11/11/00

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On November 11, 2000 at 18:33:52, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 11, 2000 at 18:20:25, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>On November 11, 2000 at 14:36:02, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>I do not think that Hiarcs has big king attack scores relative to other
>>>programs.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>wrong
>
>I think that your impression of bigger scores of hiarcs may be because of the
>fact that hiarcs has bigger scores in general than other programs.
>
>Here is an example that is not about king attack but about endgame:
>
>[D]8/2n4r/p1k1p3/PpPp1p2/1R1P1PpP/1P1R2P1/8/5K2 w - - 0 1
>
>This position is from one of the games between Fritz6a and Nemeth Eduard
>
>Fritz6a evaluated this dead draw as +2.94 for white and Hiarcs7.32 can see +4.39
>pawns for white.
>
>This is not because Fritz is smarter than Hiarcs but because of the fact that +2
>of Hiarcs is not identical to +2 of Fritz.
>
>Uri

I see this all the time in games with my engine vs Crafty.  For example in some
drawn endings mine will say +2 and Crafty will say +1.

Some engines contain a term that's supposed to induce them to trade down when
ahead material, I think.

bruce



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