Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 04:15:27 01/17/01
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On January 16, 2001 at 21:54:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>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 think this is going to be improved in the next versions anyway, because with
Gambit Tiger I'm working harder on king safety and king attack.
> 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...
That's right.
Christophe
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