Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 08:08:20 08/28/98
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On August 28, 1998 at 09:59:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: <snip> >I hate to throw a damper on this, but it won't work, period. The first reason >is that if the tactical engine rejects the positional engine's best move, the >positional engine won't have a "second-best" move to try, because alpha/beta >doesn't produce that. To obtain it, you have to do a full re-search, but with >the rejected best move eliminated from consideration. > >To make this work, you take a *huge* performance hit, and will play far worse >than if you do what we are doing now... <snip> I guess what really matters is how often the "positional" engine would have to be restarted "to do a full re-search, but with the rejected best move eliminated from consideration." If that did not have to happen often, then the objection may not be valid.
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