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Subject: CCT4: monsoon vs. cyberpagno 0-1 lessons

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 09:18:50 01/19/02


Nice game by cyberpagno.  Not the way I'd like to start CCT4 but we live and
learn.  Here are a couple of positions I found interesting from the round 1
game:

[D]r5k1/P3pp1p/3p2p1/P7/5P2/8/P4PKP/bN1R4 w - - 1 24

Here monsoon's eval is slamming white for bad pawn structure -- 6 isolated pawns
and 5 doubled pawns.  The sum of these two terms was approx -2 pawns positional.
 I've since scaled it back a bit.

[D]r7/P6p/RN6/P4p1k/P3pb2/8/6K1/8 b - - 3 37

This is a position after I resigned for monsoon.  But it helped me find a bug in
the engine -- monsoon uses the control of the square in front of a passer to
determine the threat associated with that passer.  But when there is more than
one passer on a file it was sometimes computing the control of the square in
front of the trailing passer!

Good luck to all in the coming rounds.

Scott



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