Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 12:48:15 10/24/02
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>First of all: did you consider to determine your mobility by attack detection >without counting moves? I ask you this because the biggest cost in searching and >evaluating is at the horizon and below. So, generating all moves there just to >count legal moves is not optimal in my eyes. Additionally you only need a subset >of all moves there. So, your mobility costs a lot: you could evaluate other >aspects of a position more accurately instead. > What about this: you keep your exact counting of legal moves at inner nodes (depth>=1), but at the horizon and below you approximate using attack detection. This way you keep the accuracy you like where it does not have a big impact on the total cost. Alessandro
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