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Subject: Re: Advantage of MVV\LVA over MVV

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 06:52:44 08/03/04

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On August 03, 2004 at 09:09:23, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On August 03, 2004 at 09:08:14, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>On August 03, 2004 at 05:53:31, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On August 03, 2004 at 04:21:45, martin fierz wrote:
>>>
>>>>ah, i just read your answer above - sorry for asking a second time... hmm, i'll
>>>>have to try this!
>>>>
>>>>any idea how much better your "correct" MVV/LVA is compared to the value
>>>>comparison?
>>>
>>>It depends on the rest of the program. But it could be quite significant.
>>>
>>>It's one of these things were everybody gets it wrong the first time
>>>because the most logical thing to do is not correct because of the
>>>weird stuff an alphabeta searcher looks at :)
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>How is this not standard MVV/LVA?
>>
>>To me this seems exactly equivalent to:
>>
>>
>>value = (victim_value << 10) - attacker_value;
>>
>>or some such, which would also sort things into MVV/LVA order . . .
>>
>>anthony
>
>
>Unless people are doing something stupid like value = victim_value - attacker
>value . . . which would be an easy mistake to make.
>
>anthony

Maybe it's a good idea to read a thread a bit more before replying.

--
GCP



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