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

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 09:36:03 01/19/02

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On January 19, 2002 at 12:18:50, Scott Gasch wrote:

>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

So, a recompile? :)  Be careful.

Do you know anything about your opponent?  Was he on during the game?

Will




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