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Subject: Re: King safety evaluation running wild ;-)

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 17:33:56 10/07/98

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Hello Heiko! Glad to see that you're keeping your programming spirit.  I went
through the game and it was fun, as you said.  There is one little thing that I
wished to point at: move 7 by Black which was, I believe, the Bishop/Knight
exchange on c3.  Try to teach your program to refrain from exchanging its
fianchettoed castling Bishop!  That was a substantial positional mistake, which,
unfortunately, seems to still be rife amongst some programs (sh, sh -- some
commercial programs are prone to it too!).  Congrats on your match win vs Arasan
(which is, after all, close to expert strength, especially at the 5 min per game
level).  Keep up the good work, and, if possible, do send over some more of your
nice Winboard games.  I should go on with my CC page after a two-week spell off.

Regards,
Djordje


On October 07, 1998 at 18:54:28, Heiko Mikala wrote:

>I just wanted to let you all share some fun with me... :-)
>
>I would like to show you a game of my own program against EXChess 2.46
>which happened just after I made some aggressive changes to my
>king-safety evaluation code.
>
>And, of course, changing king-safety evaluation can also change a
>program into an aggressive king-side attacker... and that's exactly
>what happened in this game - a furious king-side attack against
>EXchess. Just have a look at the moves from move 32 on.
>
>It was real fun to watch this game! (at least for me as the programmer)



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