Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Interesting Game; King Safety lessons?

Author: Dan Homan

Date: 05:33:26 06/14/99

Go up one level in this thread


On June 14, 1999 at 00:51:51, Will Singleton wrote:

>Jon & Dan,
>
>Nice to see EXchess playing again.  I notice it likes those passed pawns.  I
>changed the passed-pawn code a bit to deal with you, Dan, so try again. :)

Happy to.  I always thought I over-valued passed-pawns by a bit, but it
has worked well against humans in the past.

>
>I also lost a game today to TalMoves, which wiped me with a seemingly obvious
>kside attack.  A good game for me to analyse.  (won a game, too.)
>
>With respect to your game moves 31-35, Amateur would have played Rd8 instead of
>Bxh2, but I don't think it would have helped much.  The eval was under a pawn,
>but should have been worse.

I tested EXchess at longer search times than 7 seconds and it would
prefer Rd8 to Bxa2 as well.....  It does avoid the mate, but things are
still very bad - it loses at least a rook

 - Dan
>
>I think cstal has some special-purpose speculative king-attack code, which can
>work spectacularly sometimes.  Similar to Diep?  Not sure.
>
>Will



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.