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Subject: Re: Advantage of MVV\LVA over MVV

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 08:33:48 08/03/04

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On August 03, 2004 at 09:52:44, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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

I never read Uri's posts.

anthony



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