In article ,
Folkert van Heusden wrote:
How does one determine wether the end game was reached?

Er, the same way as one determines whether the middlegame has been
reached? What is the context of your question? Are you trying to use
a different evaluation function for the endgame and wanting to know
when to switch to that function?


Dave.

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