Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 06:14:58 05/31/01
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Hi On May 31, 2001 at 09:04:04, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On May 31, 2001 at 08:55:44, JW de Kort wrote: > >>Can anybody explain why this is happening? > >a) a bug (very likely) > >b) a knowledge hole. Your evaluation function does not understand >the positions which are needed to convert the win, for example by >scoring them too low. Hence everything but the current position >looks worse. Your program will not want to lower its score and >hence plays shuffle chess. My guess is that (b) is more likely. At least it happens to my engine quite often. For example if you don't tell your engine that it's a good idea to push some pawns in the endgame, the engine will happily shuffle kings until draw-repetition-recognition sets in and your engine pushes a pawn in order to prevent the draw. Regards, Sargon
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