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vibranium21 / Conjuror

in-progress lichess-bot engine play here: https://lichess.org/@/Bot-Chocolate
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Strange piece sacrifices for no apparent reason? #1

Closed vibranium21 closed 1 year ago

vibranium21 commented 1 year ago

a big takeaway from a few test games: https://lichess.org/study/wRLbZWZU was that the bot plays solidly, until a MASSIVE, pointless blunder. Trying to figure it out.

Virinas-code commented 1 year ago

Horizon effect. He thinks he will get a lot of material after you take his queen back, but you just take back again so he loses at the end.

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Horizon_Effect

vibranium21 commented 1 year ago

It seems adding a quienscence search really hellped with this issue. Thanky you for diagnosing the issue!