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Subject: Re: A Good Program for Analysis

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 11:27:31 04/28/99

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On April 28, 1999 at 13:24:40, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On April 27, 1999 at 23:27:23, Claudio Duarte wrote:
>>
>>   A few days ago I saw a discussion about a good program for analysis,
>>   and it seems that Crafty on a Fritz 5.32 platform emerged as a good
>>   choice. And I had just ordered Hiarcs 6.0 engine for the same purpose.
>>   How does it compare to Crafty? Does its positional knowledge trans-
>>   lates into good analysis?
>The Hiarcs engine is truly excellent at analysis.  We use it in the C.A.P.
>project.  It also helps us fill a problem caused by crafty not analyzing epd
>positions which are singular and forced.  Highly recommended.

Crafty is probably checking to see that it has only one legal move, and
preventing the search if that is the case.  Wouldn't it be easy enough to simply
remove the test?

Dave




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