Author: Tony Werten
Date: 00:42:58 08/27/03
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On August 26, 2003 at 18:42:59, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >In the Richard Lang interview at: > >http://www.beepworld.de/members37/computerschach/ >(Just click on the link "ChessGenius Classic 7" in the leftmost column. The >interview also appears in *English*) > >"For example I have never used capture searches and rely instead on a static >swap off routine." > >This seems to indicate that CG does not employ a qsearch. I also understand that >Junior does something similar. I wonder how this is done? I would presume some >type of accuracy tradeoff must be involved, but I wonder what? I'm very curious >about how this is all done and why doesn't everybody do it this way? > >How is all the effort that goes into creating a good eval compatible with such a >handling of non-quiescent positions? It just seems kind of wacky to me. For Shogi there was an article about it. IIRC they called it "Super SOMA", a kind of global SEE. It also included checking moves etc. Tony
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