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Subject: Re: Knight to the Rim

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 11:26:18 08/09/04

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Sorry, the posted position was in error. It is:

>[D]r1bqkb1r/2pp1ppp/p1n2n2/1p2p3/4P3/1B3N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQ1RK1 b q - 4 1

On August 09, 2004 at 14:25:30, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>[D]r1bqkb1r/2pp1ppp/p1n2p2/1p2p3/4P3/1B3N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQ1RK1 b q - 4 1
>
>I don't know if I filled in the castle flags right but in this position
>black still has both rights left.
>
>The question is, if your program values bishops more than knights,
>how do you prevent it from playing Na5 to capture the White Bishop
>but then giving up the pawn at e5 (since the capture Nxe4 by black
>is unplayable). (e.g. 1. ... Na5 2. Nxe5 Nxb3 3. ab)
>
>I've searched this to 10 full ply with unlimited quiescence
>and it still can't see that Na5 is bad.
>
>It would help if some people posted their searches and mention
>how they avoid this kind of issue.
>
>My search:
>
>Alpha=-255 Beta=245 Maxdepth=99 MaxTime=9999999
> 1/11> c6a5  0.00  245       68 c6a5
> 1/11  f6e4  0.01 1026      159 f6e4
> 2/15  f6e4  0.01 1008      946 f6e4 f1e1
> 3/17< f6e4  0.02  758     4181 f6e4 d2d4 e5d4
> 3/20  f6e4  0.04   75     7143 f6e4 b3d5 e4f6
> 4/30  f6e4  0.13   75    24970 f6e4 b3d5 e4f6 d5c6
> 5/34  c6a5  0.50   57   104715 c6a5 f1e1 a5b3 a2b3 c8b7
> 6/34  c6a5  1.22   45   256985 c6a5 f1e1 a5b3 a2b3 c8b7 b1c3
> 7/42  c6a5  4.31   32   889215 c6a5 f3e5 a5b3 c2b3 f8d6 d2d4 f6e4
> 8/51  c6a5 24.86   19  5021946 c6a5 f3e5 a5b3 c2b3 d8e7 d2d4 d7d6 e5f3
> 9/54  c6a5 115.27   19 19483875 c6a5 f3e5 a5b3 c2b3 d8e7 d2d4 d7d6 e5f3
>10/54  c6a5 264.28   26 44999682 c6a5 f1e1 a5b3 a2b3 c8b7 d2d4 f6e4 b1d2 d7d5

>
>Stuart



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