Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:41:26 02/21/00
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On February 21, 2000 at 22:38:58, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 21, 2000 at 21:18:37, Christophe Theron wrote: >[snip] >>Just an example: the concept of "tempo" is absolutely useless for a chess >>program. Just my opinion of course. I don't see what to do with this concept, >>and I don't think my program is lacking it. > >Of course your program is aware of tempo. If not, it will lose all the time. >Consider these two nearly identical positions, but each has the tempo advantage >over the other: > >k7/7P/8/8/8/8/p7/7K w - - >k7/7P/8/8/8/8/p7/7K b - - > >I know for certain your program will know of the advantage of the tempo. >[snip] Just for completeness: k7/7P/8/8/8/8/p7/7K w - - acd 4; acn 8; acs 1; ce 32744; pv h8=Q+; k7/7P/8/8/8/8/p7/7K b - - acd 4; acn 8; acs 1; ce 32744; pv a1=Q+; One tempo is the entire difference between mating and getting mated.
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