Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 05:23:35 03/06/05
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On March 05, 2005 at 18:37:06, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: Hi Gian-Carlo, >I get the impression that you do something special with mating threats. > >Quite a bit of games are won because Anaconda sets up a chronic mating threat, >and cashes in on that many moves later. good to hear that, please post some games ;-) In fact, Anaconda (and it's predecessor Gromit) have a static mate-in-1 recognizer. It's expensive, so it is not used everywhere in the tree. I'm not sure if it really adds playing strength at longer timecontrols, but the code was pretty hard to write and debug, so I won't throw it away now that it's working.... Best, Frank > >Am I imagining this or is there really something? The name (strangle!) makes me >wonder, too. > >-- >GCP
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