Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 11:27:07 05/14/01
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On May 14, 2001 at 13:31:16, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>The fact that your program can avoid a6 in a few seconds does not prove that >>avoiding a6 is easy because you may have a good program. > >Most programs will be able to avoid a6 reasonably fast they will see that >they cannot make progress after a6 and hence their evaluation will not >improve upon rook+3 passers. > >When they get deep enough they will see that it is possible to make >more progress in the other lines, and hence switch. > >You are right that it is playing the right move that matters, but >I suspect most programs will have a lot more trouble in the position >Miguel posted, because they have to improve upon winning a pawn, which >is harder. > >-- >GCP I Just tested my program (Gaviota v0.2.1 PIII700 Mhz), it took 600 seconds to switch to Kc2 (+2.93)and 743 seconds to see Rg6 with a big jump in the evaluation (+5.24) after 15 plies. The commercials would do better. How much better? under 3 minutes? Miguel
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