Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:45:11 09/06/02
Did anyone notice his cutoff idea in the evaluation function? It seems to me to be a very good idea, and I don't know if others have tried it out. Basically, it consists of three modes with two early exits... 1. If the material + structure score alone is dominant enough, it exits right away. 2. Otherwise, it processes the piece list. If that score is dominant, it exits. 3. Otherwise, it does a full board control scan for all 64 squares. It is described starting on page 62 under the section "3.3.2 Multi Staged Design" He gets roughly 71% evals returning in stage #1, 13% in stage #2 and 7% in stage #3. It seems like it might be a big win to do it that way.
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