Author: Dan Homan
Date: 13:36:49 06/05/98
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On June 05, 1998 at 15:34:21, Will Singleton wrote: > >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 :) I'll log EXchess onto FICS tonight. I should have an account set up on ICC soon. (I've set it up, but I am just waiting for the admin to register it as a free computer account.) I was waiting until I could afford a fast machine, but I figure that will be a long way away.... - Dan > >Will
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