Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:48:56 09/20/99
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On September 20, 1999 at 02:09:30, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I still try to improve the playing skill of Hossa in pawn endgames (which is not
>very difficult because he plays them very badly). About underpromotions: I know
>that Amir Ban doesn't generate underpromotions in the search tree. I don't like
>that very much.
Yes. I think Amir is right, but you know there are always people out there that
have nothing better to do than complain about it. They start making noise about
it on CCC, and after several days everybody else is talking about it: "what,
this program does not find underpromotion problems?! What a shame!"...
You'd better save yourself this kind of (stupid) trouble by generating
underpromotions!
>What I am doing now is to reduce the search depth for
>underpromotions (one ply). It helps a lot in some positions, e.g. in the pawn
>endgame position where crafty saw that mate in 4 although it is a mate in 6.
Yeah! That's one of the cool ideas I read here from time to time, and that makes
me believe this place is worth it (not to mention the pleasure to talk with
several friends).
Thanks!
Christophe
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