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Subject: Re: Our own Thinking?!?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:43:26 12/10/99

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On December 10, 1999 at 11:00:17, Bert Andersson wrote:

>Is there anyone interested in trying to describe our own thinking when playing
>chess? In a language for humans, far away from computers :-)
>
>I have done some work on this and it staggeringly difficult at first. I had to
>define words etc. to get a clear picture of it. And it was hierarchical levels
>involved etc. But all in all I got some very good startingpoints for programming
>a knowledgebased approach in a small slice of the chesspace!
>
>Currently I'm working on programming, which is slow, also because I want to put
>as much knowledge as possible from the beginning. But it is interesting as the
>work gets very broad. I can use Words, graphics and all kinds of sortingprograms
>as well as CASE's, which I haven't got into much because of their difficulty.
>Any ideas?
>
>I just remember that it exist a book on this topic, from -50ies ?!?
>Well, I don't have it in memory. Anyone who has?

Note that when getting this position diep didn't search very long yet,
so i analyzed by hand.

It took some time to realize, but after a while i realized that
white wins when he can get a rook to f1 and a rook to the 7th rank.
black is in zugzwang then and has to allow doubling rooks on f1-f7 after
which rf8 mates.

the main problem is of course to get the rooks position like that without
black being able to just give away its queen or give a perpetual check.

obviously a program solving this position with egtb will simply show
mate in xxx. DIEP solves it fullwidth searching not very quickly, but
with +20.0 at 15 ply. with nullmove turned on diep is currently searching
in the states somewhere with a lot of hashtables. Will get that log
after the weekend i guess.

Vincent




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