Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 22:58:42 01/28/00
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On January 29, 2000 at 00:37:43, James Robertson wrote: >On January 28, 2000 at 21:26:38, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On January 28, 2000 at 21:12:22, walter irvin wrote: >> >>>i am doing a experiment with rebel .took away the open book and let it think .i >>>was just curious to see if it could find any advantage for white in the start >>>position ? so far 18 ply it likes e4 score +.41 .i think that the start position >>>is a draw with best play .i think that even a computer like db would not find >>>any advantage better than .60 .also doing this with sargon III , i found >>>something that makes no sense to me .after 12 ply it liked e4 but in the pv >>>about the 5th ply it was giveing away a bishop for nothing although it did not >>>show up in the score ?? does anyone know how this could be ????? >> >>I could change a few numbers in my program and make 1. e4 worth +18 pawns. All >>this stuff is arbitrary. Letting a program search the initial position for a >>long time is useless. > >Not necessarily. If you let your program search a long time and it decides white >is ahead by 18 pawns, you know you need to do some bughunting fast. :) > >James Ba-da-bing! Score one for Jim! Dave
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