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

Author: James Robertson

Date: 06:54:01 02/20/99

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On February 20, 1999 at 00:18:42, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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

!!!
That is encouraging. I will *definately* try that too.

James



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