Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:24:56 01/13/04
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On January 13, 2004 at 03:48:32, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >On January 12, 2004 at 17:47:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 12, 2004 at 17:34:52, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>I do not see when it happens in crafty and note that it is not only a question >>>of speed when it is not clear what is faster and if I understand correctly >>>crafty may be wrong when a sequence of captures that is finished in trading >>>kings happens and it may happen in the endgames. >>> >>>[D]8/5r2/5k2/3R1p2/5K2/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 >>> >>>Rxf5+ is a good capture but based on SEE that let trading kings it can be >>>pruned. >>> >>>Uri >> >>No. It is not very frequent and doing the test will burn more time than >>avoiding the test saves, since the occurrence is so tiny. I simply ignore >>it totally... > >A gave my kings a value of +-Infinity. >Now, in such a case, wouldn't it stand pat anayway instead of capturing the >king? Because loosing a rook seems better than loosing a king. > >regards >Andy I do the same, so actually you might be correct, in that losing one king will stop the captures there in the minimax phase...
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