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Subject: Re: Resuts of the Dutch open championship

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:42:09 12/12/02

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On December 11, 2002 at 15:01:39, Nicolas GUIBERT wrote:

>>also in draughts a good evaluation should take care that you search
>>more efficient, so adding lazy evaluation in those few positions where
>>sometimes it helps to lazy eval and in like 1% of the situations it
>>doesn't, it should mean that you get a smaller cutoff, which means
>>in short that you search less efficient, so you should waste more nodes
>>searching to the same depth with lazy evaluation where the % overhead is
>>bigger than the efficiency win for evaluating without lazy eval.
>
>I don't understand. Could you say it differently ?
>
>>My guess is you should start fixing hashtable :)
>
>Maybe :o)

Ok let's say it a bit more rude.

A big evaluation in a very efficient program should never profit from
lazy evaluation.

If so then you have either no big evaluation or a very inefficient
searching program.

Best regards,
Vincent



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