Author: martin fierz
Date: 07:53:44 05/04/04
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On May 04, 2004 at 10:44:43, Tord Romstad wrote: >When there is little thinking time left, my engine annoyingly often fails to win >KQKR endgames. Are there any simple but effective eval tricks which can help to >play such endgames well without searching very deeply? > >Tord none really that i know of. of course there are two, but those are obvious, the first is easy, the second is hard: get the defending king to the edge of the board, and if possible, separate king and rook of the defender. but it's tough to win this on knowldege, i would say - humans at least can hardly win against a computer defence, and they are nice examples of chess-playing entities not searching very deeply :-) cheers martin
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