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Subject: Re: Using SEE

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 13:26:14 01/15/98

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On January 15, 1998 at 14:52:27, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>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

Bruce,

Agree, agree, agree.. But not without first asking questions for past
research
and recommendations on the subject.

  "Stand on the shoulders of giants and
   ye shall SEE. Pretend to be a giant and
   ye shall be brought down."  Anon.

--Stuart




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