Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 06:15:39 06/27/03
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On June 27, 2003 at 08:53:08, macaroni wrote: >ah, so an for instance, if i'm a rook down, there isn't much point winning a >pawn, as i'm still 4 points down? is this the basic idea? That would cut out a >lot of really silly captures I imagine Also, depending upon how much you'd like to cut out, you could consider something like "queen takes protected pawn" to be a bad capture. This would take a little more effort to detect, but you would save yourself a lot of uneccessary sub-tree searches. You said that your program isn't fast, so spending the extra time to detect something like this probably isn't going to hurt as much as it would for someone who had a fast searcher.
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