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Subject: Evaluation at start versus eval at node. Why not mix them?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 07:15:19 06/11/99

Its known that Fritz and some other fast programs reach their high nps because
they do their evaluation mainly at the start of the search.

Is it not possible to mix this up a bit. So that you do a "big eval" at the
start, then at certain depths in the search. Or even better, if some condition
sets in, like swap of queeen, endgame etc, then do a new thorough eval, else
just the fast eval?

But perhaps some programs do it that way already? Or perhaps its just not
possible to implement?


Torstein

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