Author: Scott Gasch
Date: 12:07:20 12/15/00
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On December 15, 2000 at 00:01:42, Will Singleton wrote: >Amateur-Monsoon, today from ICC. Monsoon seems to have dropped a couple pawns >to get a good attack, pretty good play. Congrats to Monsoon, my first loss to >that developing program. > >Now, the question is, can any engine see the danger here (beyond the obvious >attack)? I think the score should go negative, but I don't have a program that >can confirm this. > I think monsoon got lucky here... it's been behaving like a ravid dog going after the opponent's king since I turned up the king safety weight in my eval. I did that because it was screwing up its own king safety a lot and I wanted to correct this. But I think its up too loud now and its quite willing to drop minor material like a pawn or two to press the attack. In fact in two games it lost yesterday it sacrificed a knight to keep the attack alive. My max king safety score is about 4 pawns right now. Consequentally, I've found this ravid dog behavior scares human opponents... often times they take forever to move and get into time trouble or goof up while its in attack frenzy. Then it's all over. I need to turn this eval term down but find a way to preserve the aggressiveness (and own king paranoia). My search tree explodes with check and threat extensions at ply 9. Going to 10 will likely take all day. 9 -43 905.1 59037675 h1h2 h7h5 a1c1 h5h4 h2h1 a8c6 c1a1 [hash] Also thanks for the congrats -- Bob and Bruce and Ernst and the rest of you here deserve some credit and thanks too. Scott
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