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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