Author: Jon Dart
Date: 09:12:53 06/29/01
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On June 29, 2001 at 09:39:52, Jim Monaghan wrote: >Hi Jon, > >Any particular reason why you used Phalanx 21 instead of 22? > It's what I had. >Game 10 was odd ... for 5 moves in a row, Arasan stripped his king of most of >his defensive pieces: 15...Qb6, 16...Qb5, 17...Ra6, 18...Rfa8, 19...Nb6 >resulting in this position. > >[D] r5k1/1p2bppp/rnp1p3/1q6/p2PPB2/P1R2N2/1PQR1PPP/6K1 w - - 0 20 > >With Phalanx's mobile centre and the ability to shift his own pieces over to the >k-side it is not suprising that the concluding attack came quickly. I agree this doesn't look good. Arasan does not detect that the rook on a6 is effectively out of play, which is part of the problem. It has some code to discourage the queen from wandering when the king looks vulnerable, but it's not perfect. > >How is 6.0 coming along, ... will it support analysis in WB? It does support analysis and is compatible with the new WB protocol. It's also now compilable on Linux. However, it isn't dramatically different in strength compared to 5.4, despite a lot of changes. I'm still testing and tweaking. I haven't got a release date for this. One issue is that I don't have the Arasan user interface working with 6.0 yet. Winboard users probably don't care, but lots of people like having one program to install and don't want to mess with WB setup and configuration. So ideally I'd like to put out a new version with both native UI and winboard support. --Jon
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