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chessandgo
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #105 on: Sep 4th, 2012, 5:18am » |
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what was jdb's table conditions again? E+3 pieces vs E + 2 pieces, max? Or 3 pieces total vs 2 pieces total max?
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #107 on: Sep 4th, 2012, 8:30am » |
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on Sep 4th, 2012, 2:15am, Hippo wrote:I am almost sure the first move for gold is forced ... |
| If that it true, then I hope it is the two steps that immediately occurred to me when I saw the position.
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browni3141
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #108 on: Sep 4th, 2012, 11:08am » |
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on Sep 4th, 2012, 2:15am, Hippo wrote:I am almost sure the first move for gold is forced ... |
| I'm fairly certain I know which move your referring to, and I agree that it's the best move, but there seem to be other golds moves that don't give silver an obvious advantage also. I'm a little worried that it is gold that has a forced win because my mainline currently results in a gold advantage and I need to find an improvement for silver. Notice that it is silver who is in the predicament I described before, where two steps might not be enough to prove an initiative, after gold's first move. @Fritz: Those two steps are hopefully the same two steps I immediately saw.
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browni3141
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #109 on: Sep 4th, 2012, 2:05pm » |
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I'm not even sure that the move I previously thought as gold's best is actually gold's best. I think gold has several good first moves, or at least other moves that deserve attention. I'm fairly confident now in my ability to play this endgame. It might be against intuition, but I think strategy still dominates tactics. The tactics are too simple in my opinion to be a difficulty for humans. I did come up with an improvement for silver in my mainline. My most recent analysis again says the game is even, without a clear advantage for either side, but there are plenty of pitfalls both strategic and tactical. I'd like to play a non-official game with anybody that wants to play. I'm fairly confident that I understand the positions well enough that I can beat anybody, and perhaps anything. Of course if you also have done analysis that puts us on even ground, and I'm not so confident anymore
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #110 on: Sep 4th, 2012, 7:20pm » |
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on Sep 4th, 2012, 2:05pm, browni3141 wrote: The tactics are too simple in my opinion to be a difficulty for humans. |
| Apparently this is not the case, it's just that I can't see the tactics, and therefore get the impression that they are easy
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #111 on: Sep 7th, 2012, 6:52am » |
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on Sep 4th, 2012, 8:30am, Fritzlein wrote: If that it true, then I hope it is the two steps that immediately occurred to me when I saw the position. |
| Seems we agree on the move and browni still fails in disproving the statement. I am going to investigate the following position: 1g Ra1 Rd1 Ef2 Rg2 1s ra7 rd8 ef7 rg7 2g Ra1n Ra2n Ra3n 2s rc8w 3g Ra4s Ra3s 3s rb8e
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #112 on: Sep 7th, 2012, 7:59am » |
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on Sep 7th, 2012, 6:52am, Hippo wrote: Seems we agree on the move and browni still fails in disproving the statement. I am going to investigate the following position: 1g Ra1 Rd1 Ef2 Rg2 1s ra7 rd8 ef7 rg7 2g Ra1n Ra2n Ra3n 2s rc8w 3g Ra4s Ra3s 3s rb8e |
| Rabbits moving towards home and non-existing rabbits moving?
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browni3141
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #113 on: Sep 7th, 2012, 8:50am » |
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on Sep 7th, 2012, 6:52am, Hippo wrote: Seems we agree on the move and browni still fails in disproving the statement. I am going to investigate the following position: 1g Ra1 Rd1 Ef2 Rg2 1s ra7 rd8 ef7 rg7 2g Ra1n Ra2n Ra3n 2s rc8w 3g Ra4s Ra3s 3s rb8e |
| I agree now, it wasn't obvious to me before why another move was bad, but it is now. All moves except for Ra2n Ra3n lose for gold.
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #114 on: Sep 7th, 2012, 10:25am » |
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on Sep 7th, 2012, 7:59am, rbarreira wrote: Rabbits moving towards home and non-existing rabbits moving? |
| rabbits backward is must, but c/d bug must be corrected. Grrr, I must start by implementing go2 ... 2 go implemented, but this position is far from reach of my bot.
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #115 on: Sep 12th, 2012, 12:08pm » |
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In near future my AEI will be able to start eee games. I expect following interface: As gold it looks for current last valid position in this threat and it offers to play this game, but if opponent complains, it would be ready to play position defined by opponent. As silver it will look at the position as well and could wait for position defined by opponent, but it would allow "followmirror" and "followcentral" chat command in which case it will mimic gold till "start" chat command appears followed by at most two steps of gold. Game could end on illegal move in this case when playing on opponent half. Playing gold the bot would play fastest way to reach the eee position while not leaving piece further than on 2nd row after each step. There would be exception to this if it detects the opponent is not able to reach the eee position in time in which case it will wait. Playing silver would mimic gold even on agreed position till the eee position appears. Most of this is already codded ... it generates correct gold setup sequence for current eee. ... So I hope in few weeks ...
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #116 on: Sep 13th, 2012, 3:05pm » |
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Whatever happened with the chessandgo vs odin73 game?
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browni3141
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #117 on: Sep 13th, 2012, 4:32pm » |
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on Sep 13th, 2012, 3:05pm, clyring wrote:Whatever happened with the chessandgo vs odin73 game? |
| I didn't think it happened at all.
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chessandgo
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #118 on: Sep 15th, 2012, 4:10am » |
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Hmm odin PMed me saying he wouldn't be able to play the EEE game this week, and that he had already contacted you?
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Re: Endless Endgame Event?
« Reply #119 on: Sep 15th, 2012, 5:57am » |
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Hello clyring, I´m very sorry. I thought that I sent you both c&g and you already a message that I can´t play any event game for several weeks. But it was probably only c&g and woh who received a message (woh is my team captain in the AWL)?!
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