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Subject: Re: King safety test position

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:13:44 05/02/02

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On May 02, 2002 at 12:01:25, Brian Richardson wrote:

>On May 02, 2002 at 11:40:57, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>This isn't a "king safety" position.  It is a pure tactical position:
>
>It might be king safety related.  Tinker also finds Nxh5 in about the same time
>on my laptop as Crafty does.  However, when using only material and piece square
>tables in a "fast eval" mode, Tinker does not find the move after a couple of
>minutes.  Gerbil (v1 and v2) does not find it either.  So, an eval with king
>safety terms is a factor (Gerbil v2 has some, but not enough I guess).

I think that the only reason that you do not find it with piece square table
evaluation is the fact that you have not the right extensions.

A jump in the score of crafty from +0.19 to +3.10 and later to 4.34 cannot be
because of king safety evaluation because crafty is not so speculative.

Uri



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