Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 08:34:21 09/18/01
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On September 18, 2001 at 02:57:09, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 No, I don't have anything like that in there, and I doubt that anyone does. I don't know what caused e5 and Rxf7 either. The program went psycho, and I'm glad it did. bruce
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