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Subject: Re: MVV/LVA or SEE - liability? Addenum...

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 05:30:42 11/29/00

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On November 29, 2000 at 08:23:56, Severi Salminen wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Robert Hyatt said that when he tested the performance differences between SEE
>and MVV/LVA he saw a 10% advantage for SEE. Is this 10% really worth it when we
>consider the fact that SEE might miss some tactical shots, like pins and other
>check involving sequenses? This might be also true if we use standing pat
>cutoffs in qsearch, but generally. Has anyone pitted a version of his/her
>program using SEE against MVV/LVA in a long match (more than 100 games at
>least)? What were the results?
>
>Severi

And after rechecking Hyatt said that SEE is about 2x better in qsearch. And he
was talking about number of nodes searched, not speed. So I think that a few
pins doesn't matter here...



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