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Subject: Re: New Way to Evaluate Positions

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 05:57:07 11/21/00

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On November 20, 2000 at 22:58:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:

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>>Incidentally, the name "Shannon" could be mentioned.  Any scheme which throws
>>away, repeatedly, large amounts of information is inferior in the sense that it
>>is theoretically better to use most or all of the information available,
>>assuming that a practical way to do that is found.
>>
>>
>>Bob D.
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>Unfortunately alpha/beta throws away 99.999% of the information passed over in
>a normal tree search.

That doesn't sound good.  Can anything be done about that?



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