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Subject: Re: SEE (was extensions)

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 11:37:53 12/29/97

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On December 28, 1997 at 13:30:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 28, 1997 at 11:47:20, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>
>>What is SEE? Some canned knowledge routine?
>
>Static Exchange Evaluator...  a procedure that looks at all possible
>captures on a specific square and returns a score based on the expected
>gain (or loss) of initiating the first move of the exchange sequence...
>
>used to order captures for one thing...  and to cull outrageously
>losing captures for another...

How much increase in quiescence-search (and overall search) efficiency
does this provide? Or speedup for that matter.

Is your SEE routine written in a way that it would be simple to
rewrite/convert
for another program?

Which of the Crafty modules is it actually in?

Thanks,
Stuart



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