Author: KarinsDad
Date: 23:07:04 01/18/99
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On January 19, 1999 at 01:05:41, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >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! Probably not significantly. When was the last time you underpromoted in a game or had a computer do it to you? It would be nice if the program was complete, though. It would also be interesting in the computer vs. computer tournaments if someone went through and calculated some statistics on this. I assume Junior allows underpromotions as legal moves (if it doesn't, then you could not play real chess against it, it would be a variant), it just doesn't either generate them itself or what? It considers them only if every other move leads to mate? Do you know any details on this (I haven't read the other posts on this). KarinsDad :)
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