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Subject: Re: Sacrifices - eliminating them from the search?

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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