Author: Amir Ban
Date: 16:07:57 03/11/00
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On March 11, 2000 at 15:03:58, John Coffey wrote: >I wonder how much benefit there would be to doing a dynamic exchange evaluation >on certain moves and just eliminating them from the search. Remove moves that >seem to obviously lose material. We might allow sacrifices at the base of the >tree and sacrifices that give check at any point. > >The benefit is that it would cut down on the size of the tree, and perhaps by a >great deal. The cost is that the program would be blind to many tactical shots. >It would probably miss that a piece is pinned and cannot recapture. If we could >somehow keep track of pinned pieces then our dynamic exchange evaluator could be >programmed to not eliminate moves when pinned pieces are involved. > > >John It would not play better than 1800 no matter how good it is in other respects. Amir
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