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Singular extension

Post by cdani »

I managed to make it work on Andscacs. I suppose with such a low branching factor it can help clearly to go deeper in forced lines, the idea of it of course.

I tried it again because in a game Komodo was finding a line that involved a sacrifice that Andscacs was seeing too late. I tried to view what was doing bad. Stockfish sees the move also quickly, so this probably mean that was search related, not evaluation related. Also is a clear tactical line.

[d]

Here white should take d5 with the pawn, and the proposed line that Andscacs was unable to view quick was:
cd5 d6, Ng5 Qe7, Ne6 Ne6, Bd6.

Maybe other engine developers which could not make SE work, can try later when the branching factor of his engine go down.

So a nice 5-10 elo increase for the (hoped) stage 2 of TCEC for Andscacs :-) And other tournaments, of course.

I achieve often improvements of Andscacs just watching a single game. Of course for this helps a lot a bit of chess understanding, even if for this was not the case.