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Subject: Re: Ruffian 1.0.0 can't mate with KR v K??

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 06:33:53 09/26/02

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On September 26, 2002 at 09:11:48, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On September 26, 2002 at 09:03:14, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>In general I agree that TB should be used and do the work for the engine
>>wherever possible, but KRxK? Hey that's the basics! Even my cat can win that! :)
>>
>>Andreas
>
>That means your cat dosn't make use of the nullmove heuristic.
>If you teach your cat how to use nullmove it may no longer win that!
>Bernhard

Then why doesn't the programmer set nullmove to R=0/0 if the position is equal
to KRxK? Lame excuse. I mean, when your engine loses in a tournament you can
shout: "This was nullmove, that doesn't count!"

Andreas



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