Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:03:30 01/23/01
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On January 22, 2001 at 17:12:52, Jeff Lischer wrote: >> >>I'll try playing the moves through with the game history and see if the quirky >>Rg8 rears its ugly head. > >Howard, > >I just discovered that you don't even need to play through the moves to see Rg8 >appear. Try the following: > >Save the game up to the move in question in a pgn file. Then select New Game >(this clears the hash tables). Now open the game from the pgn file. Have Century >analyze the position. Even without previous analysis and with completely cleared >hash tables, Century will not find O-O and instead it plays Ne4, d6, and Rg8. I >never knew that the game history could make a difference like that. The main importance of the game history is potential repetitions. If you set up a raw position, with no history, then no repetitions are possible unless they occur below the position you started with. With a game history, some moves might repeat positions from earlier in the game, and influence the score in strong (or weak) ways...
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