Author: José Carlos
Date: 06:49:19 05/22/03
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On May 22, 2003 at 08:41:56, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >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. > >Isn't everybody doing this anyway ? >Uli I guess so, but I thought it'd be useful to say it, in case someone didn't know. José C. >> The >>all the other underpromotions will return alpha and thus ignored. >> >> José C.
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