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Subject: Re: Engine ...Test ....Move

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:00:31 03/22/05

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On March 22, 2005 at 22:55:47, Pallav Nawani wrote:

>On March 22, 2005 at 21:58:07, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Interesting that after 10 minutes, only ProDeo gets it, among this group of
>>heavyweights:
>>
>
>My engine dosen't get it either. I _think_ this is due to the fact that Pro Deo
>considers moves which jeopardize king saftey to be good ones, and dosen't prune
>them (maybe even extends them).
>
>Of course, you need to have really good king safety to be able to do this sort
>of thing. My engine would probably just prune the capture!

This is one that is fairly easy for a human, I think.  One of those rare cases
where the human has an advantage over the computer (unless you are playing
against ProDeo).




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