Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 00:11:17 07/23/02
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On July 23, 2002 at 03:04:39, Pham Hong Nguyen wrote: >Hey Dann, I did not say about your test set - yes, all games of that test set >were artificially created to illustrate how important underpromotions are. >However, I am mentioning about _real_ games - other story. Almost all of those positions I posted are from *REAL GAMES*. Only a very tiny fraction are made up positions. >If you or someone could (or I will do when I have spare time), do a small >research about underpromotions in real games (of any database): count and report >total number of underpromotions / total number of promotions. The statistics >will help us on decision of design. The amount of useful underpromotions in real games will definitely be higher than you think. If it is as small as one in a million games where underpromotion provides benefit, I will be utterly astonished.
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