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Subject: Re: Programmer vs Program strength

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 12:34:21 06/05/98

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On June 05, 1998 at 11:14:24, Dan Homan wrote:

>
>Recently, I observed that strong players (stronger than me, anyway)
>attack the king to win.  I stopped a good deal of this by putting in
>some evaluation for open files near the king, but some players
>make excellent use of bishops and knights (and later the queen) to
>strip the king's defenses and give my program serious trouble.
>
>I will try to patch this hole in the future, probably not for some
>time though, as I need to finish my research/thesis this year.
>
> - Dan

I notice you haven't been online recently.  I have a slightly stronger
version, let's play a few.  I've set Amateur to match selected accounts,
so you don't have to initiate.

My biggest holes left are revamping the quiesce search and endgame eval.
 And, of course, king safety :)

Will



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