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Subject: Re: Account for a SEE ?

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 09:19:28 03/16/99

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>>Hi everybody !
>>Will anyone be so kind and briefly explain me what sort of
>>advantages would (not) have a chess programmer to implement
>>a SEE in his code.
>>Much obliged to you,
>>Cristian
>Er....
>What's a SEE?  I've been programming 33 years and I have never heard of one.

SEE stands for Static Exchange Evaluator.  It is used to estimate the possible
material gains that could be acheived by a capture.  Ideally the moves that
gains the most material should be played first to maximise the efficiency of the
alpha Beta algorithm ie maximise the number of cutoffs.

Crafty uses SEE in its move ordering

Steve Maughan



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