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Subject: Re: qSearch and stand pat question

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 07:20:00 11/04/03

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On November 04, 2003 at 09:53:16, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>I can imagine that chances that this is good are rather high when there are no
>queens around anymore. But with queens still on the board I can imagine lots of
>checks which capture one pawn and give check at the same time, which quickly
>nullifies the advantage again.

I forgot to add:

This is not quite as dangerous as you think if you include checks in your
qsearch.  Because of the high score for the connected passed pawns the engine
will avoid standing pat, but the qsearch should find the sequence of queen
checks leading to the capture of the pawns.

Tord



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