Author: Nicolas GUIBERT
Date: 05:34:31 12/10/02
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>In draughts winning is a lot harder than in checkers. 3 kings vs 1 king is a draw. That's the reason of the high percentage of draws at top level. Ideas of adating the rules start being tested at international level because of this problem. >See how easily napoleon came in 4th. Both games napoleon lost (against >Dam and against tornado) were non-egtb problems. Through time, I have indeed lowered the impact of 5-6 men EGTB on the result. At first, I thought that it was a must. Now I have a more mixed feeling about this. With some good knowledge, many positions could be played quite good. Of course this is different for the 3-4 men database which are much more important. >Against DAM the problem was the evaluation of a queen versus 2 pieces >and against tornado it was the fact that i was so stupid to implement >a kind of single nullmove 1 day before the tournament started which >missed that it had to give away a piece in order to win the game >(Napoleon had a winning position against Tornado). > >On the other hand we had an easy draw against Buggy. I only saw the end of the game Damage-Napoleon (endgame winning for Damage, but drawn on time), what happened in this game ? I feel Damage is a very strong program. Though I have not seen its games yet. By the way, I'd be interested in knowing how big Napoleon's evaluation function is. Can you tell me this ? Nicolas Guibert.
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