Author: Slater Wold
Date: 22:23:02 06/16/02
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On June 17, 2002 at 01:16:45, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On June 17, 2002 at 01:11:12, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On June 17, 2002 at 00:51:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On June 17, 2002 at 00:16:36, Slater Wold wrote: >>> >>>>I believe that this position exploits the fact that *most* programmers give a >>>>bonus for captures. >>> >>>I don't know of a single program that does this. >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >>TSCP, and I *think* Crafty did. (At least, ordered capturing moves higher than >>non-capture.) > >That's a difference from giving them a 'bonus'...unless the scores are >exactly equal, it won't matter. And at the root many order differently. > >-- >GCP Well, not exactly. I know that TSCP give an actual "bonus" for capturing moves. I *think* Crafty does/did too. Perhaps it only orders them higher. However, if Program A orders capturing moves higher than non-capture moves, and it stumbles across position X where the score for a capturing and non-capturing move are the same, it's going to play the capturing move. Anyway, perhaps I was mistaken. But, I could have sworn I read a thread a while back (on move ordering) where the common voice was to give a capturing move a "small bonus". Maybe it was that other computer chess board I troll. :)
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