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Subject: Re: SEE testposition

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 02:46:02 06/11/04

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On June 11, 2004 at 02:59:35, Stefan Knappe wrote:

>On June 10, 2004 at 18:11:36, Richard Pijl wrote:
>
>>On June 10, 2004 at 15:36:39, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>
>>>On June 10, 2004 at 15:30:38, Richard Pijl wrote:
>>>
>>>>This position is a little funny when doing a SEE on the promotion move b8=Q.
>>>>
>>>>[D]3r4/1PQPqpk1/7p/8/1r4p1/8/6PP/1R3R1K b - -
>>>>
>>>>Depending on the rook that is picked first to capture on b8 the
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone sort the capture moves in a particular way (when there is a choice
>>>>between two of the same pieces?
>>>>
>>>>Richard.
>>>
>>>Nope. There are lots more of these and I live with it.
>>>
>>>Bas.
>>
>>I do not really care about it either. It is probably quite complex to fix this
>>anyway. But if there is a cheap solution to fix/improve this, I'm willing to try
>>it!
>>Richard.
>
>Hi Richard,
>
>I also don't care about it. But perhaps there could be a quite cheap solution?!
>If there are different equal captures, you could detect pinned pieces from point
>of view of the to-field. Of course you should capture with pinned pieces at
>last.
>
>Do you think the described procedure could work?
>
>Best regards,
>Stefan

Interesting thought. It would require a bit of up-front calculation that you can
reuse in the SEE process, as the revealed attacks on the square have to be
calculated anyway when the 'pinned' piece captures. I'll probably try this.
bye,
Richard



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