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Subject: Re: Testposition King Safety ( or maybe something else)

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 03:52:17 08/28/01

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On August 28, 2001 at 00:24:56, Jon Dart wrote:

>Arasan 6.0 takes about 33 seconds to switch to Kd6, on
>an Athlon 1.3 GHz, 16MB hash.
>
>Arasan 5.4 takes over twice as long (79 seconds).
>
>The two versions have different king safety scoring. My
>guess is, many engines penalize too much having the
>king on the 3rd rank.
>
>--Jon

Yes, that was my impression,too . I think it is a good testposition as it
illustrates that you can punish king in the centre too much.

The something else refers to the _long_ time many engines ( in fact all that
have real difficulties to solve this ) need to resolve the fail-lows they get on
..Ke8 .

pete



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