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Subject: Re: Saavedra study wrong?!

Author: Yakov Konoval

Date: 23:47:25 02/09/06

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On February 09, 2006 at 18:07:54, h.g.muller wrote:

>On February 09, 2006 at 16:43:27, Maurizio De Leo wrote:
>
>>You could just make a normal search (without TB) from the root position and
>>choose the highest scoring move from the ones TB indicate as a draw.
>>
>
>True. Perhaps even better would be to do a search where you let the opponent
>select his moves according to the regular evaluation of the end leaves, but your
>own moves according to the TB. In essence use minimax on a non-zero-sum game,
>assuming that he has no TB and that your evaluation is sufficiently similar to
>his that you can predict his likely errors.
>
>But in the case at hand the normal search is deep enough to see that the choice
>is between stalemate, K vs K or grossly lost positions.

Saavedra study is wrong on 16*16 board, but without TBs it's hard to
find the correct defence :-)

YK



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