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Subject: Re: Nice king safety testposition

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:51:05 08/16/01

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On August 16, 2001 at 15:50:28, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On August 16, 2001 at 15:42:51, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>Mine takes forever and 12 ply to see the trouble, even if I turn up the open
>>h-file with rook (queen) on it king safety term.
>>
>>Do the programs that solve this quickly do it by shear speed, evaluation or
>>clever extensions?
>
>Phalanx solves it very fast.
>Phalanx searches less than 150K NPS on my 950 MHz machine.
>It has very clever search extensions.
>It has very clever king saftety.
>
>So darn clever (in fact) I have a hard time figuring out what is going on,
>despite having the source code at my disposal.


Phalanx, eh?  How has it done in tournaments vs. the other engines?  If not so
good, what weakness(es) does it have to offset these strengths?



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