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Subject: Re: Can't mate with K+R vs K

Author: Peter Kasinski

Date: 18:14:24 02/19/99

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Well, this is one of the few things my Pedestrian does well :-).
So, I basically use only two things and it works really quickly.

1) Piece-square table penalizing the opposing king for being near the edge of
the board, and especially in the corner.

2) Reward my king for being close to the opposing king (forget centralization
etc. - just chase the guy).

This works well for me in K+Q v K, K+R v K, K+BB v K.
Only for K+BN v K I have to use additional piece-square tables for my minors and
two piece-squares for the opposing king (depending which B I have).

PK.

• Re: Can't mate with K+R vs K James Robertson 18:26:14 02/19/99
  • Re: Can't mate with K+R vs K Eugene Nalimov 21:18:42 02/19/99
    • Are these the compressed tablebases? James Robertson 13:08:35 02/20/99
      • Re: Are these the compressed tablebases? Eugene Nalimov 13:35:07 02/20/99
    • Re: Can't mate with K+R vs K James Robertson 06:54:01 02/20/99

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