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Subject: Re: Show me a draw score!

Author: José Carlos

Date: 07:41:11 07/18/03

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On July 18, 2003 at 10:03:48, Sune Fischer wrote:

>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.

  Mmm, are you sure that's a draw? I mean, black doesn't have the stalemate
trick anymore...
  But of course you're right in the idea, we (programmers) can't generalize the
pattern, but only cover up to certain clear generalizations.

>>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! :)

  Thanks ;)

>-S.

  José C.



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