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Subject: Re: Sacrifices of chess programs

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:43:23 11/08/01

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On November 08, 2001 at 11:04:59, Mark Young wrote:

>On November 08, 2001 at 10:20:37, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I define a real sacrifice of chess program as a move that is losing material
>>based on only material evaluation but is played by the program because the
>>positional score is bigger than a pawn.
>
>Most of the Real sacs I have seen are based on mating attacks. Do you define
>this as a real sacrifice?

If the program can see the mate or can see material that it get I define it as a
combination and not as a real sacrifice

The test if it is a real sacrifice can be done by a materialistic program with
good search rules(positional scores always lower than 0.5 pawn so we can know
the material score based on the score of the program).

If the materialistic program can only see that the sacrifice is losing material
even after a long search then it is clearly a real sacrifice.

Uri



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