Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 01:20:04 10/27/98
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On October 26, 1998 at 12:43:26, Bruce Moreland wrote: >Here is the tail end of a game played between my program (Ferret) on a 533 mhz >Alpha and Crafty on a dual 450 mhz Pentium II, at time control of 5 0, on ICC. > >My program got smoked in a K+P ending it traded into (apparently) voluntarily. > >One of the things you hear about if you talk to old-timers in this field is that >the square of the pawn is a totally important evaluation term. I'm not sure who >said it, but someone said that it's worth 100 Elo points. This was a long time >ago, back when programs would get killed in endings routinely, but I get the >idea that this wisdom hasn't been re-evaluated much since then. It is my >opinion that square of the pawn is worth almost nothing in practical play, since >the number of K+P endings that actually occur, with play still in them, seems to >be approximately zero. > >This ending may prove to be a counter-example. I currently don't have this >knowledge in my program. I'm going to stick it back in and see if it >understands this ending better. > >I would be interested in knowing if anyone has any thoughts about this subject >in general or this ending in particular. My only thought is that this is really funny, and serendipitous, because we were talking about this issue just a couple of nights ago on ICC. :) Dave Gomboc
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