Author: Willie Wood
Date: 16:24:55 11/24/97
All, I recall reading that some programs, like Ferret, don't use mobility in their eval functions, and I would guess that's for speed. I've been trying to do without mobility as an experiment, and it's been a bit tough to get the bishop to know what it's doing. Anybody have a hint? Another issue is the tree explosion that occurs with check extensions. Hyatt mentioned the use of fractional ply extensions on replys-to-check, though I don't see how that avoids being arbitrary (my lack of understanding). I wonder if there's a good check-pruning method that would avoid chasing the king all over the board? WW
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