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

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 08:22:38 11/29/00

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On November 29, 2000 at 10:26:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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
>
>
>
>You didn't read far enough.  _IF_ you also use SEE to weed out losing captures
>from your q-search, you can get a factor of _two_ speed improvement.  That is,
>you will search the tree _over_ twice as fast counting that original 10%
>savings.

Yes I checked your message again and noticed that as I stated in my "addenum"
message... So, is there any need to worry about pins, for example?

Severi



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