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

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 23:46:04 11/04/02

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On November 04, 2002 at 19:06:28, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On November 04, 2002 at 18:56:57, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>>>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
>
>Yes, this is very realistic, I can see why you would care about this position ;)
>
>-S.

On second thought, I don't like for a program to have holes in it, it should be
able to solv all problems given enough time. So a little modification to the
implementation would be needed. You can probably give me more positions that
will fail after the modification, but I think that goes more or less for all
pruning rules.

-S.



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