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Subject: Re: Features: Return vs. Effort (new revised table)

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 02:22:22 07/07/04

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On July 07, 2004 at 02:26:30, Tony Werten wrote:

>>5          3         .6              mate-at-a-glance
>
>From my experience, the effort is higher, since it's a very dangerous piece of
>code. Specially since other wrong scoring seems to get damped by alpha beta, but
>a wrong score by a maag is deadly.

This depends on how you use it.  When I used static mate detection, I didn't
return a mate score, but just used the information for move ordering.  The
mating
move was searched first.  This works very well, even if the mate detection is
correct only 99% of the time.

Tord



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