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Subject: Re: Will next version of Junior have underpromotion code?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 17:20:25 06/07/99

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On June 07, 1999 at 19:17:30, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 07, 1999 at 19:11:21, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>[snip]
>>I think they probably gain elo from ignoring them.  In practice, underpromotions
>>are largely a waste of time to consider.
>Is this purely an opinion or do you have mathematical data?  I see a large
>number of them occuring.  I suspect that they occur a lot more often than you
>think and are also a lot more beneficial.

At least for the present, it is only an opinion.

Minimax has a way of removing the horrible error in end-point evaluations.  It's
pretty rare that missing an underpromotion will actually hurt you.

Dave



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