Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 04:51:45 08/26/04
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On August 26, 2004 at 07:19:14, Jarkko Pesonen wrote: >Can you guess the probability in which case this extra pawn is going to help >mating? >After all, evaluation is full of small errors and uncertainty. >How would you implement it if you just ignored those cases when >the pawn is helpful for mating and ruled all those cases with 5-piece tablebase? >In search code ...? > > >Jarkko Okay, you don't need to be perfect, but the practical value of trying to fix this is virtually zero. Consider that the consensus seems to be that even the 5-man EGTBs all together do not have a great effect on program playing strength. Games are usually decided before then. In terms of playing strength, it isn't worth it, though for purposes of analysis, it might be nice, sure.
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