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Subject: Re: Three Letter Acronyms explained

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 08:15:49 09/24/01

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On September 24, 2001 at 11:05:22, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>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.

Yes. The big difference is that SEE understands no positional
considerations, whereas the quiescent search does.

Also, in at least some programs, SEE does not understand pins
and the like whereas the quiescent search does.

--
GCP



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