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Subject: Re: SEE (Static Exchange Evaluation) Question (and History)

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 15:57:16 10/18/00

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On October 18, 2000 at 18:16:07, Brian Richardson wrote:

>Most better programs seem to use SEE.  I have not implemented this yet in
>Tinker, but have some concerns.  I realize the point of SEE is "static" (and
>meant to be much faster than recursive make/unmake move searching), but is it
>not a problem that the SEE is only concerned with attacks to one particuar
>square at a time?  I would think that a series of exchanges would open up other
>significant move options that the SEE does not see (pardon the pun).  I don't
>recall reading anything about SEE in ICCA or elsewhere and was wondering what
>others thought about this.  Perhaps the move ordering (and pruning) benefits
>simply outweigh the incomplete analysis, sort of like the crude history score
>technique.

Mistakes near the tips aren't as important as mistakes higher in the tree.
Everything that hapens near the tips is very heuristic.

bruce



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