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Subject: Re: rewriting alpha beta(thanks in advance for advices)

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 10:16:04 12/11/03

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On December 11, 2003 at 12:27:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 11, 2003 at 09:41:38, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>I now extend at the beginning of the search, directly after the call to the
>>static evaluation function.  The advantage of doing like this is that you
>>know much more about the effect of the move, because you can look at how
>>the move played affected the various components of the evaluation function.
>>
>If you care about the evaluation, why not call it _inside_ the loop rather
>than at the top of search one level down?  You save time for sure by avoiding
>the procedure call, and stuff...

I could do that, of course, but the beginning of the search function seems
like the most natural and clear place to have the call to the evaluation
function.

I am sure the time needed to call the procedure is too small to be noticable.

Tord




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