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Subject: Re: underpromotion

Author: Gabor Szots

Date: 23:38:07 02/22/06

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>The task is not too hard.
>The main problem is implementing it in a way that is productive to playing
>strength.
>
>Movei searches underpromotions but it is possible that I can do it few elo
>stronger by not considering them because underpromotions are rare in chess and
>the program spend time on analyzing stupid lines with underpromotions.
>
>It may be possible to solve the problem but I need to test if the solution is
>really productive.
>
>A possible solution may be underpromotion reduction but the problem is that in
>that case underpromotion may fail high because of the horizon effect.
>
>Uri

Then a simple solution would be a switch which enables underpromotions in
analyis but disables them in game play.

Gábor



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