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

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 02:43:49 07/07/04

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On July 07, 2004 at 05:22:22, Tord Romstad wrote:

>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.

Yes, but that's not a mate at a glance but a move ordering trick. Less effort
but also less result.

Tony

>
>Tord

• Re: Features: Return vs. Effort (new revised table) Tord Romstad 02:49:44 07/07/04
  • Re: Features: Return vs. Effort (new revised table) Tony Werten 04:35:01 07/07/04
    • Re: Features: Return vs. Effort (new revised table) Tord Romstad 04:51:09 07/07/04
      • Re: Features: Return vs. Effort (new revised table) Tony Werten 05:21:47 07/07/04
        • Re: Features: Return vs. Effort (new revised table) Stuart Cracraft 08:36:44 07/07/04

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