Author: Will Singleton
Date: 21:02:37 11/02/03
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On November 02, 2003 at 22:14:29, Koundinya Veluri wrote: >On November 02, 2003 at 17:12:38, Will Singleton wrote: > >>Sure, but I'm not sure CT was referring to finding the mate as the problem. CT >>seems to have some problem understanding that KQK is better than KQKP, that's >>all I can figure. > >King of Kings has a problem with this because it thinks that it can keep white >from promoting and at the same time promote its own pawn, according to eval. So >it keeps checking for a while and eventually should capture the pawn, but since >it considers a position drawn if repeated even once, it might end up drawing the >game. > >Koundinya I know most programs do this, but I'm not sure why. My program evaluates drawn positions correctly; that is, if a position is repeated once, it is not drawn. Will ps (i have noted at least one well-known program that has adopted the correct draw logic recently)
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