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Subject: Re: Static Exchange Evaluation (SEE) for pruning in quiescence (?)

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 02:25:25 08/19/03

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On August 19, 2003 at 05:17:08, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 19, 2003 at 05:04:58, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>[D]3r2k1/pp1r1qpp/2pb4/5p2/3R1P2/8/PPPR2PP/3Q2K1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>My engine has information about all attacked squares, e.g., it knows that d6
>>is attacked by a white rook and defended by a black rook. However, I assume
>>that an SEE should be able to find out that Rxd6 is a winning capture. This
>>needs a more extensive processing of backed-up attacks (e.g., Rd4 is backed up
>>by Rd2 which is backed up by Qd1, and Rd7 is backed up by Rd8). I'm afraid
>>this is too costly a process.
>
>Hardly. You can look for the additional attackers after each capture
>you try, in an incremental way. And given that there's not many directions
>they can come from, this is fast...

I was wondering, wouldn't it be better to write an SEE which neglects backed-up
attacks, and not use it for pruning? This way it yields a good move ordering at
no cost (e.g., using Ed's attack tables), and isn't liable to risks of pruning.


>
>--
>GCP



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