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Subject: Lazy Eval? And thanx to JL

Author: Ed Parry

Date: 14:44:40 02/03/98


Hi Guys!

I have seen LAZY EVAL referenced here and RGCC a few times and am not
sure what it is. Could someone give a brief explanation please?

I also FINALLY got a working program going thanks to the excessive help
of James Long (Tristram author). I have a long way to go and am finally
able to understand better the sources I have - crafty, tristram,
minimaxe, TSCP, etc. that I have.

I'd just like to thank JL openly for his patience, help and suggestions.

I'll most likely be asking more advanced questions as I progress, but I
have a huge list of stuff to do now just to get the program decent and
stablized.

Anyone have an suggestions? I basically have SEARCH working finally
(based on Tom K's NEGAMAX C source) and my evaluateposition() function
is based ONLY on material and a simple center table. THis needs alot of
work obviously.

Also, I need to add in some form of move scoring in the move generation
phase so I can get some form of order to my search. Any suggestions
beyond MVV/LVA?

For those of you running sites re: chess porgramming - KEEP IT UP! I am
learning quite a it just by reading the overview of your rpograms. Same
with thsoe releasing openly your chess programs. I LOVE reading the tech
aspects how-to's - what I do's, etc.

Also to those releasing source - make sure you keep up the comments!
Tristram and Crafty are two of the best commented sources I have seen.

Thanks to all that helped me in the past (BH, TK, DT, JL, BM, ...)

FTR, I searched Springer-Verlag ( http://www.springer.ne ) for CHESS
SKILL IN MAN AND MACHINE and they claim they have two editions
available. A 1983 edition ($53 USD) and a 1984 ($30 USD) edition. Anyone
know the diffs? I asked them, and they've yet to reply (been about a
week).

Off I run - we are raining hard in Southern California - Ed



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