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Subject: Re: What is the "blocker list" for in Crafty?

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 11:45:09 07/30/02

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On July 30, 2002 at 14:34:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 30, 2002 at 12:51:39, Matthew Hull wrote:
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>It is a list of players on ICC that like to try to block the pawns up
>and then draw.  If you add a player to this list, crafty will ramp up the
>blocked pawn scoring (sort of like a super-anti-GM mode) to make it _very_
>difficult for them to block things up.  It might create positional weakness
>in some cases, but it prevents the easier draws that some programs fall into
>over and over...

Thanks!

Also, if there are no computers in the "C" list, how does crafty sometimes know
it is playing a computer?  Does Xboard give it this information?

Thanks again,
Matt



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