Author: Rémi Coulom
Date: 09:34:42 11/23/01
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On November 23, 2001 at 06:51:46, Colin Frayn wrote: >[D]8/8/1KPk4/6p1/p7/8/8/8 w - - > >... which is also obviously won for white, but which nobody spots statically. >You're now quite a few ply away from the winning promotion. Fortunately I >changed Beowulf's eval() so that it now spots similar positions to these quite >easily. The reason why programs don't understand them is the following; (and >Crafty scores this as something like +7.5 pawns for black) > The Crazy Bishop can evaluate this kind of position statically (I am not 100% sure about this one because black pawns are advanced too, but similar positions should work). Take a look at my other post. The idea consists in using a special KPK tablebase to evaluate pawn races. Rémi
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