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Subject: Re: My first chess program ;-)

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:29:25 05/08/02

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On May 08, 2002 at 17:27:37, Andrew Williams wrote:

>One simple scheme is to generate
>a Most Valuable Victim / Least Valuable Attacker score. Take the value of the
>capturing piece away from the value of the captured piece when you generate a
>capturing move.

You make a common mistake here. The correct way to do MVV/LVA is to take
the value of the captured piece and subtract the _index_ of the capturing
piece.

Try it. It'll run faster.

--
GCP

• Re: My first chess program ;-) Steffen Basting 14:40:53 05/08/02
  • Re: My first chess program ;-) Andrew Williams 14:52:21 05/08/02

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