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Subject: Re: Value of King in SEE

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 09:06:01 01/07/02

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On January 07, 2002 at 10:20:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>
>Make it something impossibly large.  Then make sure that the king is the _last_
>piece used to make a capture.  All works fine that way...

I know thats what you do :)

But won't that just make the capture sequences that ends with a king capture,
look very good?

If the value of the king is 100 pawns, the capture sequence I mentioned above,
would stop after the queen has captured the king, and this capture would then
get the value of 101 instead of 1 (disregarding that the king is actually mated.
Just pretend that the knight on d7 is gone). There might be other captures in
the position that wins a queen, and as such gets a value of 9, but this capture
winning only a pawn, will look better as it will have a value of 101. Isn't that
a problem? Couldn't it just be solved by saying "If we capture a king, the value
of this sequence is the SEE value two moves before the king is captured"?

/David



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