Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 20:08:04 09/18/01
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On September 18, 2001 at 16:33:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I disagree. If you enter into a series of captures, you might burn all your >search on the captures and have none left to see what the majority is going to >do. So you take the first step, and then you are committed. And every move >you make sees your score drop as you begin to sense the problem. By the time >the forced trades are done, you realize you are lost, as a king and pawns ending >can be searched incredibly deeply. ...which is why the ending should be searched more deeply before the program actually plays the first capture. GMs don't trade down into king and pawn endings without expecting a certain result in advance, and neither should programs. If a program is going to use up its depth, then do a static eval or a 1 or 2-ply search at the beginning of a king and pawn endings, it's just asking for mistakes. Dave
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