Author: Chessfun
Date: 09:00:53 01/31/04
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On January 31, 2004 at 11:46:42, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 31, 2004 at 11:18:31, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>. > >I can add that the problem is lack of knowledge movei has a small score for >supporting the pawn but the score for centralizing the king is bigger. > >Movei was slosest to mate in the following position > >[D]8/1K2k3/1P6/8/8/8/1R6/r7 w - - 0 144 > >I need to reduce the score for centralizing the king when all pawns are on one >side of the board including the specific case when there is only one pawn. > >I also was afraid when movei that has no bad trade code sacrificed a rook for >bishop passed pawn and some initiative but fortunately the sacrifice was correct >or Junior blundered later and I need to anlayze it to know. > >I was surprised by Junior's less of knowledge when it evaluated losing position >as only a very small advantage for movei. > >Knowledge about these endgames is important even without tablebases because it >is possible to get them as leaf position when it is impossible to look at >tablebases without significant slow down. > >It seems that Junior does not care to have the king near the files of the only >pawn when movei has knowledge about it but also knowledge about centralizing the >king that was counter productive. > >Uri Had Junior had 5 person bases installed then it wouldn't have played 52...Rxh4 which left it in a lost base position. It also would likely have changed other moves prior to that. Sarah.
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