Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:47:50 09/06/02
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On September 06, 2002 at 14:45:11, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. That is called "lazy evaluation". Most of us do that. :)
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