Author: Tony Werten
Date: 00:09:56 01/19/02
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On January 18, 2002 at 14:47:28, Bas Hamstra wrote: >On January 18, 2002 at 12:36:55, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On January 18, 2002 at 12:26:00, Bas Hamstra wrote: >> >>>You can do only "evasions" or you can do checkgiving moves, in which case you >>>must also do evasions. I do checkgiving moves. >> >>My biggest question is always how do you manage this without >>blowing the search totally out of proportions :) >> >>-- >>GCP > >I don't know how others do it, but it helps a lot if you don't allow too many >consecutive checks that are not captures. Many do only checks at the first ply, >and that already helps a lot against the blind spots. Others do it more extreme >and are not even using SEE pruning. Did you ever play SOS? He does it pretty >extreme, but still has a very strong program (ex amateur world champ). > >Question for me is how good it "scales". In blitz it is no question: it is >better. To prove this, see below a blitz tournament with 119 engines after round >25 :-) You could have a point. I also use checkgivers and at the speedchess tournement at the WMCC I did a lot better than one would expect from my modest hardware. Tony > >Best regards, >Bas. >
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