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

Author: James Robertson

Date: 18:26:14 02/19/99

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On February 19, 1999 at 21:14:24, Peter Kasinski wrote:

>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.

Ok! Thanks! That will get me a few more elo points!

James



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