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

Author: Matthew White

Date: 14:38:48 05/28/03

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On May 28, 2003 at 16:25:27, Uri Blass wrote:

>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
Are you referring to the opposition, or is there another reason to reduce the
distance between kings?

Matt



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