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Subject: Re: strange fritz evaluations

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 03:39:34 04/17/02

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On April 17, 2002 at 04:12:12, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Martin,
>
>>this is the reason i asked - if a program believes this position to be +1.4 or
>>+2.2, then it will go for this position instead of another promising
>>continuation. when you analyse games and the computer tells you you should have
>>played this and won, it's funny and not funny at the same time :-)
>>talk about comps being GMs...
>
>I would say that this is quite an extreme position and a classically tough one
>for computers to deal with.  Yes it will come up - especially in anti-computer
>style chess but the code and heuristics to handle this position are not trivial.
> In general I would say that Shredder is excellent at the endgame and this is
>just one hole in the evaluation.
>
>Regards,

Do the programs avoid Ng4 in this position throwing away black's advantage?
(I just modified it)
My program cannot avoid it.
Miguel

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