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Subject: Re: question about bonus for reducing distance between the kings in crafty

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:25:27 05/28/03

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On May 28, 2003 at 14:59:57, Uri Blass wrote:

>I am too lazy to look at the source code of crafty to try to find what
>formula is used by crafty for reducing the distance between the kings in
>endgames like KQ vs KR to help it to win without tablebases.
>
>what is the formula that is used.
>I decided to try something in movei and first tests suggest that it is slightly
>productive but I want also to know what crafty does.
>
>Uri

Second test suggest that my code is not productive so I may try to restrict the
code for cases when there are no passed pawns or maybe it is better first to
improve king relative to passed pawn evaluation.

Uri



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