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Subject: Re: A question about underpromotion danger

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 15:34:10 08/04/99

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On August 04, 1999 at 18:31:25, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On August 04, 1999 at 17:59:01, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>Subjective factors? Objective factors, i presume!? Tactics rule in chess
>>position evaluation. Bad positions are bad because of tactics (material is a
>>measure of tactics in a way) the problem is enumerating the various evaluations,
>>as (objectiv-forced) mating and drawing variations are often absent, therefore
>>programs (and humans) use heuristics. In a chess program it is ok to have
>>3*Minors>1*Queen. Bad trades will get pruned as tactics dominate the search.
>>Sorry for my rant, but chess is mostly tactics. An experience I learned as I got
>>better in chess.
>>
>>Regards Dan Andersson

By subjective factor I mean consideration from a limited domain, which in the
case used, a particular position. As for the rest, I am a NM so I about tactics.



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