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Subject: Re: WAC #2

Author: Andrew Wagner

Date: 21:03:41 04/30/04

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On April 30, 2004 at 23:47:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 30, 2004 at 23:26:55, Andrew Wagner wrote:
>
>>[snip]
>>>
>>>Black is already winning in position 2:
>>>
>>
>>Right, I just meant the sac was losing, not the position. In fact, the first
>>position is also winning without the sac, quite easily. My point with the second
>>position was that where in the first position the two connected passed pawns
>>made up for the difference of the rook, in the second position they weren't. I'm
>>thinking it would be tricky to create a non-expensive eval term for such a
>>complicated static evaluation. I mean, a human can look at it and quickly see
>>"the king's not close enough", but that's not so easy for a computer to see
>>without calculating.
>

Hmm? You can't be doing too much with it if you're not solving this until 13
ply.
>It is not that hard either.  :)  I already do it.



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