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Subject: Re: How to evaluate KQ vs KR? (more)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:30:47 05/04/04

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On May 04, 2004 at 11:29:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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
>
>
>Drive losing side's king to edge of board.  That's all I do in Crafty and it can
>mate against the EGTB version with 1 sec per move...

Forgot an _important_ detail.  The winning side's king has to be close to the
losing side's king as well...  Otherwise this will fail.



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