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Subject: Re: Stupid Chess Programmers

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 22:50:15 03/03/99

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On March 04, 1999 at 00:07:02, Randy Lovelace wrote:

>
>I took my program to my friends house and got him to play it
>It lost horribly to a 1600 player in the endgame, so I decided to give it
>Knowledge
>about the endgame ie baby queens
>
>I matched it against gnuchess it reached the following endgame
>4r3/p4n2/3p2k1/2p5/2P2Bp1/1PK3P1/P7/3R4 w - - am Bxd6?;
>
>It played Bxd6 expectimg Rd8 Bxc5 Rxd1 Bxa7 with an evaluation of +1.00
>
>Chess programs aren't stupid only chess programmers
>
>Randy Lovelace


You'll have to help me out on this, since I'm trying to learn the endgame.  It
looks like you gave a large bonus to the connected passers, resulting in the
plus score.  So, is the problem that you cannot expect to promote, or than you
can't defend against the opponents promotion?

Will



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