
how to improve endgame play?
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Re: how to improve endgame play?
turned out after i made all the changes and pitted them against the old version (from about a week ago), it was actually a regression
Trying again...

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Re: how to improve endgame play?
What always served me well for programs at this level was looking at the games. To see what they actually did wrong to turn a drawn situation into a loss, or aspect of the position they overlooked so that they believed a lost position was a draw.
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Re: how to improve endgame play?
I traced it to razoring, my quiescent search is minimal and doesn't bother analyzing quiet checks or losing captures, which explains why it missed Bf7+ in this game (I wondered about this for a while because other than that I don't ever reduce checks except with razoring):
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