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Subject: Re: Why did Bareev lose? (Patzer UCI Leiden)

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 18:00:37 04/07/04

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On April 07, 2004 at 20:09:06, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On April 07, 2004 at 18:52:37, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>On April 07, 2004 at 17:42:07, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>
>>>Phantastic by Patzer. I wonder, what magic he is doing here. I first thought,
>>>very aggressively extending pawn endgame positions (when the root position is
>>>not a pawn endgame) should help. But it is still rather deep, when the Qs are
>>>already from the board. Very impressive.
>>
>>Seems to work to aggressively extend pawn endgames. I added about 4 lines of
>>code to Yace. When the root position is not a pawn endgame, and the current
>>position is a pawn endgame, extend 1/2 ply. This is additionally to some other
>>extension I already have, when trading down to a pawn endgame. Now I get:
>
>Wow it really works.
>
>I couldn't solve the positions you posted, they are really deep, too deep for
>frenzee even with this extension. You must have some good eval on the leaves
>too.

Ok scrap that, it was using a bean counter eval.
Solves them fine now, although it takes a few minutes to get convincing scores.

-S.




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