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

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 21:18:42 02/19/99

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On February 19, 1999 at 21:26:14, James Robertson wrote:

>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

James,

You can easily incorporate TB probing into your code. My guess is
that it'll take something between 15 minutes and several hours.
Just download TBGEN.ZIP from Bob's FTP site and read file
probe.txt.

Eugene



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