Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:13:00 04/16/98
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On April 16, 1998 at 09:38:29, Guillem Barnolas wrote: > Sorry, but hadn't read anything about swapoff before... could you >sumarize how it works ?? > I suppose i might get to date in such things.. should adquire a good >book, but it's like everything, money... Could any of you also recommend >me >a good book to start on c.c programming ?? > > Thanxs and greetings from Guillem. Here's the way I do it: find all the pieces attacking the target "square", assume that the least valuable piece captures the piece on square. Then do the same for the other side, and assume his least valuable piece will recapture. Continue this until one side has no more pieces that can be used to capture on the target square. now starting at the end, you "minimax" the scores back to the initial position, which lets you at any ply make the capture (which means that your opponent can recapture if he wants) or you can "stand pat" and not capture again. This gives a simple estimate of what's happening on "square" although it overlooks things like pinned pieces, overloaded pieces and so forth...
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