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Subject: Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn?

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 08:40:34 12/05/02

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On December 05, 2002 at 07:51:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>Some programs have a workaround that makes the ugliest
>appearances of this problem go away.

Can you give an example, preferably from a real game, where known workarounds
would not make the problem go away?

In the discussed case, probably even using the normal search time instead of
exiting search early after a mate score woulh have helped.

>But that doesn't
>fix the problem - it still occurs everywhere else in the
>search tree.

I don't understand this. Why should there be any problem in the search tree?
Until a "critical" situation is at the root, what should be the problem?

Regards,
Dieter

• Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn? Richard Pijl 02:23:02 12/06/02
  • Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn? Dieter Buerssner 15:02:02 12/06/02
    • Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn? Gian-Carlo Pascutto 02:34:30 12/07/02
      • Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn? Dieter Buerssner 08:42:40 12/07/02
  • Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn? Uri Blass 02:34:14 12/06/02
• Re: Shredder don't know how to promote pawn? Gian-Carlo Pascutto 14:17:03 12/05/02

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