Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:13:31 01/26/04
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On January 26, 2004 at 13:48:22, Matthew White wrote: >On January 26, 2004 at 11:28:38, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On January 26, 2004 at 09:57:51, robert flesher wrote: >> >>>Ruffian plays NF8?? when Nf6 holds to draw? >>>[D] 1k6/1P5n/2K1B3/8/8/8/8/8 b - - 0 84 >> >>I do not think that it is a bug. >>It is probably a design decision of the programmer to use null move pruning even >>in simple endgames. >> >>Uri >Wouldn't you consider using a pruning heuristic that HARMS play in these cases >instead of helping it a bug? Bug usually means something that _unintentionally_ causes a problem. If you do something _knowing_ that it will bite you from time to time, it isn't a bug, it is just a design decision. You could argue whether it was a good or bad decision, of course...
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