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Subject: Re: avoid move position

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 11:11:50 03/17/04

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On March 17, 2004 at 03:36:44, Will Singleton wrote:

>Odd position, because some strong programs can't see the problem with Rxd4.  For
>example, Chessmaster takes over 2 minutes to figure it out, Yace takes 3
>minutes, while weaker progs like mine see it right away.  Might have something
>to do with the treatment of null moves in king-attack sequences.

For Yace, it has to do with the material values it uses. I tried an older
version (with more conventional piece values), and it never considers Rxd4 after
a few milli seconds.

Regards,
Dieter



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