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Subject: Re: detecting and evaluating pins

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:28:30 02/23/04

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On February 23, 2004 at 07:02:59, martin fierz wrote:

>aloha,
>
>i have a question about pins. pins are a rather important feature in chess; some
>of them are not so bad, some are deadly. i just happened to chat briefly with
>anthony cozzie on ICC, and he said he didn't do any pin detection. i detect
>pins, but i don't evaluate whether a pin is not so bad or deadly. my questions
>are:
>-> are you detecting pins in your program?

yes

>-> if yes, do you try to distinguish between different pins?

yes

Note that original gnuchess 4.0 like written by John Stanback, before Dan Corbit
crippled it to gnuchess 5.0 bitboards (conceptual crippling gnuchess), was doing
pins too.

>cheers
>  martin



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