Author: Simon Waters
Date: 17:55:56 11/22/00
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On November 21, 2000 at 23:17:27, Michael Neish wrote: >I know some programs have code in their evaluations to detect a possible Greek >gift sacrifice, and avoid it. But is there any program that can iterate through >the moves for a more detailed search? Is there a way to do this statically? gnuchess has a big penalty for having the h file open and the computers king is on the King side (Not the other way around!). There are some more conditions but it is nearly all quick simple things to check. The penalty is huge - too big in my opinion - it probably needs some more understanding. The penalty is large enough to dicourage a Knight capture on g5 by a pawn on h6 if this would lead to an open h file. I once managed to grab the h7 pawn - because I knew Kxh7 would open the H file even though I didn't have a win the computer just looks at the penalty and says - looks dangerous to me. Of course this option is only open to people familiar with the source code. The Crafty code refers to Trojan attacks - but I'm not sure on the history here - surely the Trojans were being attacked. Looks similar but slightly more sophisticated.
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