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Subject: Re: The best "death-save" I ever saw

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 10:12:46 03/02/00

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On March 02, 2000 at 12:31:16, Martin wrote:

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>The "human-approach" is to see that the wK has no squares to move to and this is
>an evaluation issue. It's probably not easy to implement into a program (if at
>all) but it would probably be a great step forward...

Good point. If, in a position, there is only one piece that has legal moves,
there is a serious danger of stalemate, esp. if that piece is a queen or rook.
This certainly could be evaluated easily.



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