Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 03:52:10 08/31/04
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On August 30, 2004 at 19:44:50, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On August 30, 2004 at 14:03:49, Dan Honeycutt wrote: > >>In spite of Dr. Hyatt's admonishment that this was a loser in Crafty, I'm bent >>on trying it. Since I do legal move generation I can do the pins for half price >>- I either have or can use the pin data for one side in conjunction with >>generating moves. I just finished the routine. My NPS dropped by just over 4% >>on bench test psitions. I've just started testing an hope to have some >>indication if pin detection is a win, lose or draw in a few days. >> >>One aside - the pin detection is not always more accurate (or mine isn't). In >>the following position for the move Nxg5 the no-pin SEE correctly returns +1 >>where the pin-detection SEE comes back with -2. >> >>[D] 7k/4q3/8/6p1/4N3/5N2/8/4K3 w - - > > >White is lost in 24 :-) > >Thanks, >Eugene Really? This ending is only lost in exceptional cases - and it's certainly not obvious that this is one of them. Vas > >>Fixing this would require keeping track if the pinning piece enters the >>exchange, which I'm afraid would bee too expensive. >> >>Dan H.
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