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Subject: Re: Chess Programming: "lazy eval".

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 12:06:31 10/11/01

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On October 11, 2001 at 14:42:49, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>
>Hi Experts,
>
>What is lazy evaluation? Can I use it in AlphaBeta PV Search ?
>
>Huge Thanx,
>Matthias.

I may not be the right one to answer this, but I try anyway! (...and perhaps I
can learn something when I' m corrected...!)

I think Lazy eval. is a faster evaluation, taking fewer factors into
consideration when evaluation is done. I guess it lets you search deeper in the
same amount of time, if its not misslead the search down a bad branch of the
tree.

Torstein

• Re: Chess Programming: "lazy eval". Ron Murawski 12:26:46 10/11/01
  • Re: Chess Programming: "lazy eval". Matthias Gemuh 17:17:14 10/11/01

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