Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:55:36 10/11/98
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On October 11, 1998 at 10:41:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I've answered this a dozen times. I score this as draw, *period*. When I lose >a game because of this, or draw a won game because of this, I might make the >change. As it is, it is accurate to call KB vs KB a draw in 99.99999999999999 >percent of the games... that's accurate enough. To pick up that last >quadrillionth of one percent would wreck the rest as I certainly don't want to >trade into (say) a KNN vs KN when I was in a KNNPP vs KNPP. That's the purpose >for this evaluation... to avoid trading into draws when you have winning chances >in the game... You could safely return 0.00 in the tip nodes. Returning 0.00 in an interior node is not strictly correct. Admittedly, you'd search a lot of dumb nodes in low material minor piece situations, unless you had the KB vs KN table (or whatever), in which case you could probe this and safely return the exact value. None of this is a big deal, until you get a user who wants to explore the frontier cases just to see what will happen, then you get a post like, "Crafty can't find this mate, hahaha". bruce
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