Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 15:40:42 11/25/01
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>That's something that has already worried me: you do it when your King is >threatened, but not when your Queen is threatened. What's the logic here? > >The only answer that I have found is that if you do it when your Queen is >threatened, the search tree explodes! > >I don't like my answer because it has little to do with logic, but there is >nothing I can do about it... > > > > Christophe Well, the queen is usually much more nimble than the king -- both the number of legal responses and the number of reasonable responses to an attack on the queen are larger than if it were the king being attacked. Attacks on the queen are both less forcing and more work to search through, a double-whammy that might explain it. Dave
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