Author: blass uri
Date: 00:39:02 10/14/98
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On October 13, 1998 at 16:14:41, Tim Mirabile wrote: >On October 13, 1998 at 12:13:21, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>Why did Crafty allow KQ vs KR against any of these? Didn't it see this as a >>forced mate and try to do something to avoid getting into it? >> >>The only time I can remember being on the weaker side of KQ vs KR was one of the >>rare cases that really is drawn (queen stalemates my king, so my rook goes wild >>checking their king from one square away). > >This is bad practice vs. humans though. A couple of days ago I had a better R+P >ending against one of the crafty clones on ICC, and the only way to try to win >was to go into a Q vs. R ending, which I would likely not have been able to win >at blitz. But then the thing just refused to take my rook, giving me a Q+R vs. >R ending instead. Has anyone thought of a way to fix this kind of thing yet? I think you can have a table that translate mate in N to an evaluation function. If mate in 30 is translated to -3 pawns you will prefer this about Q+R vs. R ending. Uri
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