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Subject: Re: MVV/LVA or SEE - liability?

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 11:25:32 11/30/00

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>>Well, I'm not performing any illegal captures (which leaves king in check) - so
>>if a piece or a pawn is pinned to (?) king it can't maybe capture and SEE
>>doesn't see that. I ment no other pins. But maybe king pinning situations are
>>_very_ rare that one doesn't have to consider them.
>>
>>Severi
>
>If you have code that lets you try it both ways, there is one way to find out.
>My intuition is that even if it's not particularly rare, it isn't critical to
>avoid a few mistakes at the tips.

I don't have either MVV/LVA nor SEE. I just wanted to know if there are _any_
reasons to pick MVV/LVA instead of SEE (other than simplycity). But apparently I
must go for SEE, sounds like a few days of programming :(

Severi



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