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Subject: Endings and Openings -- the bugaboo of chess programs...

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:51:13 12/13/99

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On December 13, 1999 at 20:02:54, James Robertson wrote:
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>My program plays the endgame very poorly, and when it loses to Crafty it is
>nearly always at this stage. When Crafty wasn't playing the endgame well either,
>I guess Insomniac had much better chances.

I think the early endgame is the biggest weakness of *all* chess programs.

Once they get to the tablebases you are done for.  But when the board is sparse,
you can easily see ten full moves ahead and a computer won't usually.

If someone develops a big advantage in this arena, I think it will wipe out the
other programs.

The second biggest problem is buggy opening books (IMO).



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