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Subject: Re: Speed is the issue ... when?

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 04:20:20 02/01/04

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On January 31, 2004 at 22:08:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 31, 2004 at 21:37:29, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>>>What do you do with KRPP vs KR positions deep in the tree where you need to
>>>promote?
>>
>>I take the exact value from the KRPP vs KR table and prune. You only need
>>the KR** vs KR tables if you promote with a capture.
>
>How can you do that?  How do you know the promoted position is a win or a draw
>(or even a loss) even though the previous un-promoted position was a win or
>draw?

You don't need to know it inside the search tree. As Wesley said, you have
already cut the tree, before you are going to promote.

Regards,
Dieter



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