Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:38:54 09/06/02
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On September 06, 2002 at 20:34:14, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 06, 2002 at 19:16:56, Tony Werten wrote: [snip] >>Anyway, since you have told here everal times that Movei doesn't have a complete >>eval yet, your experiences don't really impress ( not meant unfriendly !) The >>less knowledge your eval has, the better lazy eval works. >> >>Tony > >The point is that for movei making moves is expensive so not to do it save time. >I think that if I make every stupid capture then it means that the program may >be clearly slower. > >The problem is that making moves including updating the attack arrays. > > >I guess that for xinix making moves is relatively cheap and most of the time is >used in the evaluation function. > >Am I right? An interesting thought along these lines is some experience by Bruce Moreland. He made his eval function smarter and smarter. Eventually, he found that he was being badly outsearched on occasion by far less sophisticated evaluation functions. Therefore, it seems to me that a far more intelligent evaluation function is the place that could potentially benefit the most. The hard bit is (of course) deciding where more effort should be spent and where we can simply skip it.
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