Author: martin fierz
Date: 05:19:28 02/17/04
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On February 17, 2004 at 07:55:32, Tord Romstad wrote: >On February 17, 2004 at 05:44:12, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I hope to get a significant progress in the next week(otherwise I will probably >>not complete that task and start implement not perfect knowledge about more >>complicated simple endgames like KQ vs KP or KR vs KP or KRP vs KR or KB vs KP >>or KRN vs KR). > >KR vs KP is a difficult one. Does anybody have any good suggestions about >how to evaluate it? At the moment I don't have any specific code for this >endgame at all, and Gothmog almost always evaluates it as a win for the rook. >In reality, it is of course very often a draw. > >Tord i'll have to think about this one too. i haven't done either KR-KP or KQ-KP; KQ-KP should be rather easy as there are basically only two drawing positions; KR-KP is much harder. but you should at least be able to easily identify many cases where KR is clearly winning; e.g. any time the KR-side king is in the square of the pawn KR is winning (with one exception: wKe2, bPd2, bKf1/f2, black to move, but qsearch should catch that). cheers martin
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