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Subject: Re: Tao at ICC

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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