Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:37:34 12/23/02
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On December 23, 2002 at 15:27:45, Bob Durrett wrote: >On December 23, 2002 at 14:25:51, Dann Corbit wrote: > ><snip> >> >>Chess engines do badly with closed positions. They do worse with closed and >>locked positions. Hence, they try to avoid them. >> ><snip> > >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. Not all authors try to avoid closed position. Junior use symmetrical evaluation and the same for a lot of engines. For computer-computer games there is no reason try to avoid closed positions. Uri
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