Author: Omid David
Date: 03:22:55 10/04/02
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On October 04, 2002 at 04:08:00, Severi Salminen wrote: >Allthough you are right, I'd like to mention one thing. These are positions that >computers will almost never reach. An important point to remember when you >figure why they don't understand them. I'd never program any knowledge of such >positions into Requiem because it almost never needs it. > >Severi Positions in which all the pawns are blocked, are indeed rare. However there frequently arise positions in which no prograss can be mady, thus they are "dynamic blockades". I remember Shay recently showed me such a game in which Junior failed to detect the draw. Has it detected it, it wouldn't have stepped into that variation, but would have chosen an alternative winning one.
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