Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:57:09 09/17/01
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On September 17, 2001 at 13:06:09, Bruce Moreland wrote: >If you'll recall, that's what caused the altercation I had with that Chessbase >beta-tester "author" who was operating Hiarcs in 1999. He declared my program's >moves "mistakes" when it was losing. It wasn't making mistakes, it was just >trying to avoid particularly bad terminal positions, and if it needed to give up >material at the root in order to do this, it did. > >bruce Did you change this so that if the terminal score is clearly losing that it will play the move that failed-bigtime-low last? This way, either a less tactically aware machine or a human might miss the win. Neither of them are going to miss a win if you just cough up material at the root. Maybe the beta-tester expected that behaviour (or maybe they were just ignorant, who knows?) I thought your Rf7 against Gandalf might have been exactly this sort of move (the one that fails low last) but I didn't sit down and analyze it. Dave
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