Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 01:48:27 04/27/00
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On April 27, 2000 at 04:42:50, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On April 26, 2000 at 22:49:54, Peter Kappler wrote: > >>On April 26, 2000 at 21:36:46, Mark Longridge wrote: >> >>>Here it is: >>> >>>k7/8/PB6/PK6/P7/P7/P7/8 w - - 0 1 >>> >>> >>>I think it could very well be a draw, as I don't see how to get the >>>black king out of the corner. >> >>[D] k7/8/PB6/PK6/P7/P7/P7/8 w - - 0 1 > >Of course this is a draw, it's a well-known draw as long as the bishop doesn't >control the queening square. If the bishop conrols the queening square, it's an >easy win. Here is another one: > >[D] k7/1p6/1P6/8/8/8/8/K7 w - - 0 1 > >Put a white bishop anywhere on the board and this is a draw. Out of curiosity -- do you put things like this into your eval function, or just hope that they fall out from basic principles or apply them at some heuristic point or none of the above?
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