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Subject: Re: Too hard for my engine, how about yours?

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 15:56:57 11/04/02

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On November 04, 2002 at 18:46:50, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>On November 04, 2002 at 18:11:59, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On November 04, 2002 at 16:55:10, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>Depth 11 was finished few minutes ago and the score is very convincing.
>>>It seems that depth 11 is good not only to find the fail low but also to find
>>>the fail high for Be6
>>>
>>>11 67 161361 228198851 c8e6
>>>11 319 201885 285759097 c8e6 f4c1 c3c2 b1b2 e6c4 b2a3 c7c5 a3b2 c2d1n g1d1 b4d3
>>>d1d3 c4d3 d4c5 d6c5 c1c5 d8b8 b2c3 d3e4
>>>
>>>depth=11 +3.19 c8e6 f4c1 c3c2 b1b2 e6c4 b2a3 c7c5 a3b2 c2d1n g1d1 b4d3 d1d3 c4d3
>>>d4c5 d6c5 c1c5 d8b8 b2c3 d3e4
>>>Nodes: 285759097 NPS: 141545
>>>Time: 00:33:38.85
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Congrats, I knew Movei could do it though :)
>>Your PV is 19 plies, so a bit extended.
>>Looks like there is a knight promotion, I wonder how often these underpromotions
>>aren't fail lows, cause I'm thinking of removing them completely, better branch
>>factor and all you know...
>>Of couse I would keep them at the root, so as not to have a bug, what do you
>>think?
>>
>>-S.
>
>Carefull - at least the knight promotion should be considered. But if the
>queen-promotion is rejected by capture of the promoted queen, underpromotions
>make not much sense, because they may captured as well. If a queen promotion
>forces a stalemate-draw, also rook as well as bishop promotions should be
>considered.
>
>Gerd

nice Testposition:

[D]8/4P3/1P2P3/4b3/8/PNk5/P1p2P2/K5B1 w - - bm f4; Liburkin




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