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

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 19:15:15 12/29/01

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On December 29, 2001 at 18:21:14, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On December 29, 2001 at 16:44:14, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Is SEE actively used to prune the tree?
>I thought it was just used for move ordering, since SEE cannot see pins this
>seems dangerous.

Yes, it is used for move ordering, and lots of people also use it for pruning
during the quiescence search. Not completely safe, but safer than some selective
search techniques you could use... :)

-Tom



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