Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 13:10:00 07/07/01
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On July 07, 2001 at 10:07:40, Brian Richardson wrote: >Hi >Tinker scores book moves (w/l/d formula) and also uses a preferences file (? >move flags) to avoid certain book moves, but only when in book. Sometimes the >last possible book position has no book moves that Tinker would play with these >constraints, so it falls into the normal search. Unfortunately, sometimes the >normal search picks one of these book moves it already tried to avoid. Book >moves flagged ? can simply be removed from the root move list (when not leading >to check/mate issues), but how do others avoid book moves merely scored as poor? >Thanks >Brian I think that the problem is earlier. If you have a book position where all included moves are marked poor, there is no reason to think any other move will be better. A better solution would be, if all moves from a position are marked poor, mark the move two plies before that led to this position as poor.
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