Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:14:01 05/22/03
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On May 22, 2003 at 06:08:47, José Carlos wrote: >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. It is possible to fix but it is not so easy to fix because the other promotion may leas to different extensions and different score. Uri
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