Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 14:56:14 11/12/02
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On November 12, 2002 at 17:49:48, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 12, 2002 at 17:39:55, Bob Durrett wrote: > >> >> >>Without using a chess engine to check my intuition, my first impression is that >>king safety issues dominate. If true, then this is really a test of the >>engine's ability to recognize that fact. >> >>Bob D. > >No > >Movei has no king safety evaluation ????????????????? My chin fell to the floor when I read that! You do not have ANYTHING in your program at all having to do with king safety??? Again relying on my "naked intuition," I would have thought that no chess engine could even exist without that. King safety is "lesson number one" in teaching of HUMAN chess players. Bob D. - - - - - - - - >and it can solve the first position in less than a minute. > >It can also see a negative score for white in the second position and >I guess that if the second position is correct then it means that king safety >evaluation is not needed. > >Uri
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