Author: Antonio Dieguez
Date: 14:12:44 01/21/02
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On January 21, 2002 at 17:09:33, David Rasmussen wrote: >On January 21, 2002 at 16:00:01, Antonio Dieguez wrote: > >>On January 21, 2002 at 06:43:41, David Rasmussen wrote: >> >>>What top programs use a pre-evaluator? Specifically, does Tiger do this? >>> >>>/David >> >>what is that? > >It is evaluating the root position before search, and filling up piece/square >tables etc. Then during evaluation in the tree, it doesn't have to do expensive >evaluation, it just uses the preplanned data from the root. There can be >problems if it isn't done right. For example you might score things as if the >king is at g1, but 15 plies into the tree, the king might be at b1, so the >scores are not correct. But it is just another design. It has advantages and >drawbacks just as the normal approach. > >I've been thinking that not only evaluation can be done this way. You can also >use it for detailed root position dependent extensions etc. and maybe even >forward pruning. hi David. Didn't you know?? preprocessing stuff was banned from this forum. Moderators please close this thread.
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