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Subject: Re: Show me a draw score!

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 07:03:48 07/18/03

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On July 18, 2003 at 05:42:38, José Carlos wrote:

>On July 17, 2003 at 18:08:33, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>Can your engine do what Crafty, Yace and Ruffian can't?
>>
>>[D]8/3K4/6Q1/8/8/8/5k1p/8 w - -
>>
>>Tsk tsk come on now, it doesn't get much simpler than that.
>>
>>-S.
>
>  Yes, that's trivial knowledge, if you think about it:

Right, it is trivial to implement it as a special case.
But to make the engine understand the same concept in more complicated positions
is a little more tricky.

For instance like this one:
[D]8/3K4/6Q1/1p6/bP6/8/5k1p/8 w - - 0 1

It's really annoying that they cannot make the obvious connection.

>Anubis v0.00.0012
>(c) Jose Carlos Martinez Galan
>
>1	16.00	0.02	     189  g6h7
>2	0.00	0.06	    1255  g6h7 f2g2
>3	0.00	0.11	    4889  g6h7 f2g2 h7g8 g2h1
>4	0.00	0.35	   14986  g6h7 f2g2 h7g8 g2h1 g8f7
>5	0.00	0.80	   38704  g6h7 f2g2 h7g8 g2h1 g8f7 h1g1
>
>etc...
>
>  José C.

That's certainly better than most! :)

-S.



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