Author: Pham Hong Nguyen
Date: 23:15:56 07/22/02
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>It might also win you a few games. I have seen "short sighted" underpromotions I guess that in the real matches probability when underpromotions really help to win is around 1/million games. The results may be converted to an extra of 0.001 elo ;) I see in almost all cases of tough promotions, programs can simply delay queening one or few moves to avoid stalemate without any harmfulness. >to rook or bishop that look like a good idea for 8-9 plies or some such thing in >a blitz game. Longer analysis would have said to push to a queen. The same >also happens for underpromotion to knight {more rarely}. It think an >underpromotion penalty that is a function of the depth in plies analyzed might >be a good idea.
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