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Subject: Re: Turn off the Insufficient material (NT)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:28:35 10/26/04

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On October 26, 2004 at 09:09:44, Albert Silver wrote:

>On October 26, 2004 at 04:35:31, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On October 26, 2004 at 04:08:18, Anson T J wrote:
>>
>>>Turn off the Insufficient material.
>>
>>In that case Junior will evaluate positions incorrectly and may believe that one
>>side has a big advantage inspite of the fact that it is drawn.
>>
>>The best solution is that Junior will turn off insufficient material in the
>>search but not in the evaluation but I am not very optimistic that Amir is going
>>to do it because based on experience with old versions of Junior that I tested
>>he did not fix similiar problems inspite of knowing about them.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I don't see why the Insufficient material would prevent it from seeing a mate in
>1.
>
>                                            Albert

The reason is simple.

With insufficient material it stop the search and return draw for the king move
without searching what is going to be later.

Uri



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