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Subject: Re: What's Fritz's IQ?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 13:44:14 12/29/01

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On December 29, 2001 at 04:49:49, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>On December 29, 2001 at 04:40:03, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On December 29, 2001 at 04:24:55, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Taking as an example Kasparov, he is renowned for his powerful calculations
>>>capabilities of the variations (...tree), both in analysis and both in OTB.
>>
>>Being able to come up with variations does not a tree searcher make.
>
>Don't you think that variations are made in a tree form, and the variation can
>be also searched in a decisional process to establish the *best* move?
>(Actually is what Kaspy do staring at the board in important tournaments...)
>
>>
>>A SEE can come up with a variation and it's not searching anything.
>>
>>-Tom
>
>What is a SEE ? Anyway I think is just a matter of terminology misunderstanding,
>probably we are SEEING in the same way this matter but from different p.o.v.'s
>(point of views...)
>
>Otello

A SEE is a Static Exchange Evaluator. Based on the attacks of _the current
position_, it guesses whether or not an exchange can be won. This is used to
prune the quiescence tree.

-Tom



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