Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:54:50 01/16/01
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On January 16, 2001 at 20:56:11, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 16, 2001 at 13:37:11, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On January 16, 2001 at 12:07:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On January 16, 2001 at 05:29:55, James wrote: >>> >>>>H4, h5 was so repeated that i wrote a counter < not difficult> to it, just in >>>>case the deep f boys try it on a slower but learning puter :) >>> >>> >>>If you use a different program, this likely won't work. It is based on >>>the idea that white will play h4-h5 and g4, while black plays h6 to prevent >>>white's h6. Black then blissfully castles kingside and after white plays >>>g5, the kingside is exploded with rooks and queens occupying the files. >>> >>>All black has to do is (a) not play h6 unless it is absolutely forced (the >>>old idea of "making luft" is a lemon) and(b) don't castle into a position >>>where you can _see_ that there are going to be open files around the king. >>> >>>Most programs will not do one or the other of those. Others won't do >>>either... >> >> >>Christophe, >> >>Are you reading this? > > >No I'm not. ;) > > > >> Will this be among the fixes coming out soon?? > > >Honestly I don't know. This problem could be avoided in several different ways, >but at this time I don't know for sure what I am going to do, if I do something >in order to fix it. > >Maybe a book fix would do the trick. > > > > Christophe Take it from an "experienced hand" here. If you don't fix the _code_ so that it knows when to castle and when to not castle, then on the chess servers you are going to get beat on. I have said this before... "the chess servers are the absolutely most hostile environment you can find to develop and test a chess engine." If you have holes, they will get picked on. By _everybody_ from GMs to IMs to other computer operators. That is why it is so helpful to debug there.. if you fix the book but leave the hole, they will find another set of moves to create the same problem...
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