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Subject: Re: Simple Bishop Trap

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 05:01:14 02/15/99

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On February 15, 1999 at 05:58:35, Jeff Anderson wrote:

>On February 15, 1999 at 03:22:50, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>In was quite surprised, that in two consecutine(!) tournament game between
>>Junior 5 and Crafty 16.3 Junior eats a7 pawn with bishop. So after b6 bishop is
>>lost. I have never seen Mchess or Rebel even considering that. Hmmm...
>
>I believe that Crafty has something in its eval that keeps it from playing this
>move even when it cannot actually see the bishop being captured after it's
>trapped.  Is there any test position to see if a program will do this or not?

I just cannot believe that Amir has simply forgotten to implement a "trapped
bishop" penalty. Amir?

• Re: Simple Bishop Trap Amir Ban 00:47:25 02/17/99
  • Asymmetric scoring Don Dailey 14:23:15 02/17/99
    • Re: Asymmetric scoring Robert Hyatt 05:37:46 02/18/99
    • Re: Asymmetric scoring Christophe Theron 16:17:55 02/17/99
  • Re: Simple Bishop Trap Dirk Frickenschmidt 13:11:40 02/17/99
  • Re: Simple Bishop Trap Jouni Uski 01:24:39 02/17/99
• Re: Simple Bishop Trap Robert Hyatt 10:55:49 02/15/99

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