Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 09:17:57 03/28/00
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>[D]k7/8/P7/P7/P7/8/1K6/B7 w - - 0 1 "DarkThought WCCC'99" has powerful interior-node recognizers and detects the draw instantly. With bitboards it is trivial to detect this draw pattern *fast*, no matter how many Pawns on the h-file and how many Bishops on black squares White has! Hence, "DarkThought WCCC'99" instantly scores the following position as a draw too. [D]k7/8/P7/P7/P7/P7/PB6/BK6 w - - 0 1 See my book about "Scalable Search in Computer Chess" (http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/node1.html) and the WWW pages of "DarkThought" (http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/) for more information about efficient interior-node recognition. =Ernst=
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