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Subject: Re: The Pawn Game revisited...

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 03:22:22 09/21/03

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On September 21, 2003 at 06:04:34, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 21, 2003 at 04:59:46, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On September 21, 2003 at 01:00:37, Paul Byrne wrote:
>>
>>I tried a different, even faster position, looks like it's a big zugzwang!
>>
>>[D]8/8/pppppppp/8/8/PPPPPPPP/8/8 w - -

>I can confirm that it is wrong without programs
>The pv says
>1.a4 h5 2.h4 a5 3.c4 e5 4.e4 d5
>
>White is clearly winning by exd5 so without expressing opinion if white is
>losing this line is not the reason that white is losing.

It seems to be a bad idea to cull losing captures in qsearch.
Even without that I'm still getting a won score for black, though the PV makes
no sense.
I'll look into it a bit more, try it without hash if possible.

>I think that you should not use hash tables unless you hash all the board.
>They destroy everything and I cannot trust your result because there may be hash
>collision(when you try to solve a game I want result without doubt and the
>situation is different than playing so if I cannot be sure that there is no hash
>collision your solution is wrong.
>
>Evaluation of unstoppable passed pawns may help you to prune stupid moves like
>d5.

Yes that is what I'm doing.

-S.
>Uri



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