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Subject: Re: SEE and cycles

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 12:37:25 05/02/02

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On May 02, 2002 at 14:01:29, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On May 02, 2002 at 13:13:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 02, 2002 at 12:36:13, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>>
-- snip --
>The availability of Bxc2 is incidental e.g.
>[D]qk6/p1p5/P1b5/8/4P3/3Q4/2B5/1b5K w - - 0 1
>
>Now Bxc2 gets mated, but you are right about such situations being very rare.

At least my SEE is only a sequence of captures that swapoff pieces in order to
find out the material consequnces of the captures.
Tactical things like this mate and other things as pinned pieces etc will not be
detected in the SEE function. The search has to deal with that.

Peter



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