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Subject: Re: Show me a draw score!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 20:45:40 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.

At least they are better than you in not doing wrong generalization(the position
that you posted is not a draw).

Uri



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