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Subject: Re: Using SEE

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 11:52:27 01/15/98

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On January 15, 1998 at 14:42:14, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>SEE - the static exchange evaluator can be used
>to improve upon the usual capture search move
>ordering or move selection.
>
>Option 1)
>SEE is used instead of usual sort to order losing
>capture sequences at the bottom of the list, equal
>sequences above that, and winning sequences at
>the top?
>
>Option 2)
>Or, instead, should it be used to eliminate
>losing capture sequences altogether from being
>searched.
>
>Option 1a)
>Use SEE as in option 1 but also in the full-width
>search for sorting capture sequences
>
>Option 2)
>Same as option 2 but also in full-width
>
>Are there other choises of how to use SEE? Which
>have proven best? And what kind of a speedup do you
>see for the various options?

Try it and see.  You can write a SEE, do the experiments, and report
them.  I'd be interested in seeing what the results are.

bruce



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