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Subject: Re: q-search question

Author: Landon Rabern

Date: 13:26:06 07/19/00

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On July 19, 2000 at 16:08:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On July 19, 2000 at 12:03:10, Landon Rabern wrote:
>
>>When I put this into my program so that
>>if (attackervalue>DefenderValue)&&(SEE>=0) I keep the move as well, I got worse
>>results on the WAC test suite.
>
>I don't get why you still do the AttackerValue > Defendervalue check
>when you can simply rely on the SEE result. What about the moves where
>DefenderValue > AttackerValue but SEE < 0 ?

That case cannot happen because the original attacker can choose to stop
attacking after the first attack.  The reason I do it this way is to save a call
to SEE, when defendervalue>attackervalue.

Landon



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