Author: Dan Homan
Date: 05:33:26 06/14/99
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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
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