Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:21:01 10/20/04
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On October 20, 2004 at 02:58:35, Robert Allgeuer wrote: >On October 19, 2004 at 17:39:24, Dann Corbit wrote: > >> >>It is clear that verified search always gives a significant boost in tactical >>strength for zugzwang positions. The other interesting question would be how do >>these settings affect game play? > >Yes, my intention with this was testing the test suite, i.e. showing that the >test suite can demonstrate this difference. It would be no good test if all 3 >had roughly the same score. > >In this particular case after 400 games (Nunn): >no verification search at all is about 20 points stronger than the other two, >which are pretty much at the same level. >However, this was with resign on at 700 millipawns. Is that millipawns or centipawns? .7 pawns is not much, but 7 pawns is very hard to overcome. >I assume that the version >without verification search will in reality not be able to indeed win all those >won positions where the opponent has resigned, so that in practice this setting >is probably not a good choice. > >Robert
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