Author: JW de Kort
Date: 05:20:32 06/01/01
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On May 31, 2001 at 09:14:58, Daniel Clausen wrote: >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 I have the same expierence as Sarogn. It is certainly not a bug. Jan Willem
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