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Subject: Re: underpromotion?

Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin

Date: 22:05:41 01/18/99

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As other post answer the question of underpromotion, I think I'll mention that
when people here bring it up, its usually in relation to the Junior program,
which does not yet have the code for reconizing when it would be more benificial
to underpromote in order to win the game more quickly, or at all. (Just about
every other top program does calculate underpromotion lines)

Amazingly, the program appears to play incredibly strongly anyway, (Kramnik said
some complimentry stuff about it in the last Chess Base Magazine, and it has won
the World Micro Computer Championship), and so people wonder how much even more
strong it might be if this small feature is added to the next version.

mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!



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