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Subject: Re: Using SEE

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 13:33:07 01/15/98

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Sorry I got a little pompous there but I've always wanted to
use that phrase... :-)

On January 15, 1998 at 16:26:14, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>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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