Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:52:39 08/02/05
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On August 02, 2005 at 08:03:52, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On August 02, 2005 at 06:40:00, Andreas Stabel wrote: > > >>> You can't (should not) avoid this by normal means I think >>> because no program will be prepared to make only second >>> best moves -:) >>> Kurt >> >> >>There is an other way - to just detect this situation and try to make f.ex. >>"an obvious" move quickly thereby forcing your opponent to start thinking >>and perhaps revese the roles. > > I don't see the point. If an engine makes "an obvious move" > in reply to an unexpected move, it could be worse and loose. > In my opinion the "problem" described by you îs no real problem. > Kurt The engine may give scores to the 2 best moves in the first 4 plies and if it finds big difference between the scoress(at least 2 pawns) to continue to analyze at 2 best mode and if after 1/3 of the regular time the difference does not go down to play the move that is considered by it as best in 1/3 of the regular time so the opponent will not have enough time to ponder in order to play immidiately. I do not think that the problem is very important so I did not spend time in implementing this algorithm and I think that there are more important things to improve in Movei. Uri
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