Author: José Carlos
Date: 03:08:47 05/22/03
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On May 22, 2003 at 01:01:38, Robin Smith wrote: >Often programs will underpromote a pawn in situations where they think capturing >the (under)promoted piece is still the best reply. Can anyone give an example >from an actual game where this underspromotion cost the computer a 1/2 point? > >Robin I can't recall any game with this problem, but it's really easy to fix. I simply order the promotions so that promoting to queen gets searched first. The all the other underpromotions will return alpha and thus ignored. José C.
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