Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 20:38:36 09/18/01
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On September 18, 2001 at 11:34:21, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 At least a couple of commercials do. Dave
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