Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:09:25 10/20/97
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On October 20, 1997 at 13:28:03, Willie Wood wrote: > >On October 20, 1997 at 08:52:02, Chris Whittington wrote: > >> >>Of course this is all gobbledegook for the fast/crafty/fritz paradigm >>since they (a) don't exchange evaluate and (b) have anything remotely >>like a pruning function operating over the higher plies. Gobbeldegook >>for the 'programmer-programmers', perfect sense for the 'chess >>player-programmers' :) >> >>Chris Whittington >> >> > > >Bob has said he uses a SEE. In what sense do you mean that crafty >doesn't exchange evaluate? > >WW I think he means to use the SEE routine *in place* of a tree search below that node. I did this in the pre chess 4.x days, in a program called "blitz" which did a normal non-capture search, and then used the SEE routine at most endpoints rather than a traditional capture search. Was done because of speed, but it definitely had tactical problems with pins and overloaded pieces...
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