Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 01:56:26 09/21/99
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Hi Christophe! On September 21, 1999 at 00:48:56, Christophe Theron wrote: >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!"... It's ok for me if he does it and lives with some minor problems because of this because he has good reasons. >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). I am glad that you like this idea :-) Best wishes, Steffen.
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