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Subject: How Do Chess Engines Avoid Closed & Locked Positions?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 12:27:45 12/23/02

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On December 23, 2002 at 14:25:51, Dann Corbit wrote:

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>Chess engines do badly with closed positions.  They do worse with closed and
>locked positions.  Hence, they try to avoid them.
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That "avoiding" is interesting because it seems to imply that there may be some
form of recognition and adaptation in the chess engine.

Alternatively, maybe it's inherent in the design of the search algorithms or the
position evaluation software or both?

For example, do closed and/or locked positions get a lower score?

Bob D.

• Re: How Do Chess Engines Avoid Closed & Locked Positions? Uri Blass 13:37:34 12/23/02

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