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Subject: Re: Pin aware SEE

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 10:57:46 10/03/04

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On October 03, 2004 at 10:36:14, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>On October 03, 2004 at 04:06:11, Dan Honeycutt wrote:
>
>>I'd like to thank Richard Pijl, Gerd Isenberg and others for their many good
>>suggestions when I posted on this topic a month or so ago.  After some 3500
>>games and assorted other tests I have not been able to establish any clear
>>improvement with a pin aware SEE - the increase in accuracy and the loss of
>>speed seem to be a wash.  I've given up for now but I still have my (several)
>>pin aware SEE routines which I may revisit at a later date.
>>
>>Dan H.
>
>How about an X-RAY aware pin? Bob said that is important.

My first SEE was just an InCheck to see if the capturing piece could be
recaptured.  Not too accurate, but fast.  Then I added exchanges on the square.
Then X-Ray.  Now I tried pins.  I can't claim any of them work any better than
my first simple SEE.

Slightly frustrated
Dan H




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