Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 01:44:14 01/29/00
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On January 29, 2000 at 01:58:42, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 *Lowers head in shame* =) -Tom
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