Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 04:00:02 08/28/01
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On August 28, 2001 at 06:52:17, Peter Berger wrote: >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 This was certainly PM's experience. I let it search for 30 minutes, and it got as far as depth 12. It seemed to think there was a draw until a big fail-low. The score had dropped to -0.59 when time ran out, but it still hadn't found anything better. This is one of those positions which bears closer scrutiny, in my opinion. Cheers Andrew
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