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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