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Subject: Re: Three Letter Acronyms explained

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 08:05:22 09/24/01

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Great post you explained that well !

>SEE
>

One comment: SEE is basically a quiesce search to one square only. "Quiesce"
because every side stops capturing as soon as it wants. And the capturing pieces
are ordered least valuable first.

Georg

>Static Exchange Evaluation
>
>SEE has multiple meanings, but it's most often used as
>referring to a method to do move ordering. SEE tries to
>figure out whether a certain capture will win or lose
>material, and how much. You can also use it to prune losing
>captures in the quiescent search, which some people find
>helps a lot. It's more expensive than MVV/LVA, but it's
>certainly worth trying!.
>



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