Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:53:11 01/11/04
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On January 11, 2004 at 17:55:11, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 11, 2004 at 16:52:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 11, 2004 at 15:47:04, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>I do not see a word about promotions in swap.c of Crafty but maybe there is >>>something that I do not understand. >>> >>>Uri >> >>Swap() will only find capture promotions. It really doesn't do anything >>with them, because the value is a pawn, not a queen, and the normal Swap() >>code handles that just fine. IE if you treat it as simply dxe8, that is >>good enough, you are winning a piece. If your opponent re-captures, he >>only gets a pawn, not the queen you promoted to... > >If the pawn is pinned you may need to capture with something else. > >[D]rn6/P7/K7/8/8/6k1/1Q6/8 w - - 0 1 > >If I understand correctly >SEE of Crafty is going to consider QxN as a bad capture. > >Uri That it will. SEE is inherently inaccurate, as I said. It doesn't consider pins, overloaded pieces, etc at all...
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